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Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID 2013-09-21 22:04:00, frank The biometrics hacking team of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's TouchID using easy everyday means. 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. This demonstrates – again – that fingerprint biometrics is unsuitable as access control method and should be avoided. Apple had released the new iPhone with a fingerprint sensor that was supposedly much more secure than previous fingerprint technology. A lot of bogus speculation about the marvels of the new technology and how hard to defeat it supposedly is had dominated the international technology press for days. "In reality, Apple's sensor has just a higher resolution compared to the sensors so far. So we only needed to ramp up the resolution of our fake", said the hacker...

 Press and hold the menu button (the main button below the screen). While the menu button is held down, press the power/lock button (the switch on the top edge of the device). You'll hear camera shutter noise (if you have the volume turned up) to indicate that the screen shot has been taken.  Go to your photos and locate the screen shot taken.