Friday, 20. September 2013
Topic: Phone - on September 20, 2013 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Crowdfunded Bounty For Hacking iPhone 5S Fingerprint Authentication
There's more than $13,000 pledged for a crowdfunded bounty for bypassing an iPhone 5S's fingerprint reader. The bounty, set up by a security expert and an exploit reseller requires entrants to lift prints 'like from a beer mug.' It has a website — IsTouchIDHackedYet — and payments are pledged by tweets using #IsTouchIDHackedYet. One drawback: the scheme appears to rely on trust that sponsors will actually pay up
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