The fingerprint sensor is the safest method to keep our iPhone or iPad protected at all times, since it is much more difficult to hack than a code, saving the distances and if they tell the FBI. At the Mobile World Congress a Chinese startup showed how it is possible to unlock an iPhone with Touch ID using just a little clay. Jason Chaikin, president of the Vkansee company, showed how it is possible to unlock the iPhone using plasticine, as if it were a spy movie.
Vkansee showed how to hack an iPhone fingerprint sensor using Play-Doh # MWC16 pic.twitter.com/FRY7JGMh2M
- Arjun Kharpal (@ArjunKharpal) February 24, 2016
Since the arrival of Touch ID, many have been the users who have tried various parts of your body to unlock the device, including the paws of a cat, however this is the most primitive solution of all. In theory, a thief could use the same trick to unlock the iPhone or iPad and thus have access to all our data.
We do not need to worry, since what the company has actually made on a fingerprint replica using the same material dentists use to make molds in the mouth, and leaning on the plasticine, has managed to fool the Touch ID. So if someone wants to be able to access our iPhone, they first have to make a mold with our fingerprint using our finger, it is not possible with the remains of fat that our finger can leave when using the Touch ID.
Jason Chaikin's intention is demonstrate the lack of innovation in current biometric solutions. Your company, incidentally, sells a fingerprint sensor that unlike the one used in the iPhone, it is not possible to deceive you using a fingerprint made with toothpaste and pressed with a little plasticine.
Each fingerprint is completely different to that of any other user, as happens with DNA, so any small variation in the lines that compose it, may be sufficient reason for the fingerprint sensor not to detect it as its own and prevent access to the device.
Of course the idiocy that you have to hear, it has just been discovered now that taking a key to the hardware store they make a copy, they even go and patent it, how can it be so painfully regrettable.
sssssshhh do not say it too loud they will laugh in your face.
Hi Ignacio.
From what I read, the material you are referring to (I am a dentist) is polyinylsiloxane, commercially known as Speedex. Here are two things that make it unlikely that touch ID will be violated with this method:
1.- Polyvinyl is only sold to accredited professionals.
2.- It requires some expertise to manipulate it (come on, even one who is well versed fails).
Greetings.
If there are people they can get ak47 to commit attacks, do you think they can't get a little plaster? XD
But didn't the finger have to be alive ?????
I still don't understand how with a mold you can fool the touch id.
Well, that one is already older than tutankamon, if with a little fiso and your market finger in it you can already do that, even more with a mold.
Simpler even without fingerprint or password, when the iPhone is locked we press the home button and Siri appears, let's ask Siri the time when he shows us the clock icon, press the icon and voila we are inside without hacking fingerprint or password that simple is a super serious fault that the iphone has tested on my iphone 6 try it and tell me
Carl, you are within the options of the clock, but the mobile is still blocked, you can not do anything. Try it and tell me!