As revealed this week, the iPhone 5S is set to be the first Apple device with its own fingerprint scanner (or fingerprint sensor, if you wish), working with Apple’s own Touch ID technology. Apple suggests that this technology will only allow the information gathered by the sensor to be read and used by the device […]
The iPhone has a fingerprint scanner now. Great. It will make your iPhone more convenient (or a pain in the ass) to unlock. But unlocking is sort of beside the point when it comes theft. The truth is, Apple didn’t give the iPhone 5S the one feature that could actually help get a stolen phone back—one that goes perfectly with a fingerprint scanner.
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Court documents released today show that the NSA breached privacy protections from 2006 to 2009 by failing to hold itself up to standards ordered by court in regards to database searches. These databases contain phone records, and the violations did not end until the program was overhauled by a judge’s order in 2009. Edward Snowden […]
The iPhone 5C and 5S were announced today by Apple, providing a number of new features such as the A7 processor, fingerprint scanner, a better camera and the latest iOS 7.
We suspect much of the excitement today comes from the newly announced iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, not to mention the upcoming public release date for iOS 7, but there is more to the event. We have seen details in terms of the 64-bit processor and the camera and up now we have some discussion […]
Women in Puebla, Mexico’s fourth-largest city, are tickled pink over the city’s new fleet of woman-operated, women-only taxi cabs. The rose-tinted taxis have the approval of the city’s governing authorities and are intended to provide women with the option of secure personal travel 24 hours a day.
Better late than never, as they say, especially when it comes to leaked photos that reveal the upcoming iPhone 5S sporting a fingerprint sensor on its home button. This latest, but probably not yet the last, information comes just hours before the long-awaited Apple press conference that will finally verify or debunk many of the […]
Facebook and Yahoo have petitioned the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for permission to reveal how many personal data requests are made by the government, joining Google and Microsoft in taking a stand against secret snooping. The new suits, which join an amended Google transparency petition the search engine filed today, see Facebook and […]
[guest opinion: Bruce Schneier] Some speculate that the new Apple iPhone to be announced tomorrow will come with a fingerprint authentication system. Apple would be smart to add biometric technology to the iPhone; fingerprint authentication is a good balance between …
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I guess we’re not even surprised at this point. Der Spiegel is reporting that internal NSA documents prove the agency’s widespread smartphone data access. And it’s pretty exhaustive. Spiegel found explicit mention of information access from iPhones, BlackBerry handsets, and devices running Android.
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