[liberationtech] iPhone5S Fingerprint and 5th amendment

Yosem Companys companys at stanford.edu
Tue Sep 10 16:27:08 PDT 2013


Your fingerprints change:

http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/09/fingerprints-can-change.html by @ErrataRob


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:25 PM, John Adams <jna at retina.net> wrote:

> 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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