Recently German Hacker group managed to break Apple's Fingerprint reader. What left me wondering if hacking is (if at all) illegal was the fact that they could publicly display what they do.
On Sunday, the Berlin-based hacker group known as the Chaos Computer Club–and more specifically a member of the group who goes by the name Starbug–announced that they’ve managed to crack the iPhone 5s’s fingerprint reader just two days after it was released.
“A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID,” reads the announcement on the CCC’s website. “This demonstrates – again – that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as [an] access control method and should be avoided.”