[liberationtech] iPhone5S Fingerprint and 5th amendment

[John Adams]

Has Apple released specs on the operation of the fingerprint system? I.e.
Can it be configured to use both a pin and a fingerprint?

-j



On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Percy Alpha <percyalpha at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know that users can be forced to handover digital card and written down
> passcode to decrypt data while memorized passcode is mostly safe from
> subpena and court orders.
>
> As iPhone5S uses fingerprint to lock the device, could users be forced to
> unlock their iPhone5S?
> As police can legally collect fingerprint in most cases, could they use
> the fingerprint in the database to unblock the device and decrypt data?
>
> Percy Alpha(PGP <https://en.greatfire.org/contact#alt>)
> GreatFire.org Team
>
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