; TOT; Piggin passwords

You press the scanner so that leaves a finger print on the button. All you need now is to be able to lift that print and put it on a skin analogue and you can get in. There was a mythbusters episode where they were breaking finger print readers if you want to look for it.

Not with an iphone. The sandbox system means that none of them have any access to anything you don?t allow them access to.

And its completely trivial for the sensor to check if it?s a live finger.

... and when you install them they ask for access to all sorts of things and you have to say yes or they don't work.

Some things will work but woith reduced functinality, such as maps. if you don;t allow it to access yuour GPS it might not know where you are and will therefor not be able to direct you. But you can still use the map function just like one would with the old style A-Z.

Very few ask for access to much at all and it is normally what that app needs to have access to to do what its there for, like the photos or your location. And you know what it is allowed to have access to and that isnt stuff like your password manager's encrypted database.

That is just plain wrong. With quite a bit of stuff like you location, if you don?t want to have your photos stamped with your location when you took them, they will still work fine for example.

And they have no access to any stuff you don?t want them to have access to like the files other apps produce if you don?t want the app to have access to those files.