Touch ID: good fake Apple idea

With the iphone 5s, everyone was stunned by the sanctity Touch ID, this small silver circle can unlock your iPhone with your fingerprint. A few days after the official release of iOS7 and sale of iPhone 5s and 5c, we learn that security is already hacked but also it could hurt us ... our whole life.

I know that phones contain a lot of sensitive data private and confidential. Security, a fingerprint is much better than code.

Until now, your phone is locked with a code. And if an evil manages to intercept your code, you can change as many times as you want. By cons, you can not change your fingerprint and that's the problem.

Why would you use data that uniquely represents you and your whole life for such a trivial action to unlock a phone? It is a use of "comfort" which roused Johannes Caspar, the German Commissioner for Personal Data Protection. For him, "So avoid using the biometric technology for everyday or non-critical applications, such as turn his smartphone. "

And when Apple said that the biometric data is encrypted in the smart phone and is never transmitted to the outside, Johannes Caspar sweeps this objection with a wave of the hand. For him, the average user know what data can be accessed by third party applications, and PRISM case demonstrates that nobody, not even a government is immune to leakage.

It is interesting to remember that the CNIL said in 2011 about the biometric data stored in the ID cards: "unlike any other personal data, biometric data is not assigned by a third or chosen by the individual: it is produced by the body itself and the means or represents himself and no one else, so immutable. It therefore belongs to the person who generated and misappropriation or misuse of this data is then posed a major threat to the identity of this "

And to the CNIL, fingerprints have the disadvantage and "characteristic of being captured and used without the knowledge of the persons concerned, such as for purposes of identity theft. "

To conclude, it is worrying to use biometric data just to access their mail or send an sms.Tomorrow will be the face recognition to start his car, or the recognition of the venous system to open the front door. I'm all for technology when it does not enslave man and does not turn us into a tool. I prefer ample me a microchip implanted under the skin to unlock my phone to leave my mark on an iPhone.