U.S. Senator Al Franken has written a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, in the letter he asks some tough questions about Touch ID, the 170 microns thin fingerprint sensor that resides underneath the home button of the iPhone 5S. Franken says that which the sensor might improve certain aspects of mobile security, it raises important privacy questions for the company. He cites an Apple promotional video in which the company says that a fingerprint is “one of the best passwords in the world,” and disagrees. A conventional password can easily be changed if an unwanted person finds it out, passwords are secret, they are dynamic. Fingerprints are not. A person can’t change their fingerprints, and since they leave them on every surface they touch, “they are definitely not a secret,” writes Franken. He says that hackers were to get access to a fingerprint, they’ll be able to identify and impersonate a person for the rest of their lives.
U.S. Senator Writes To Tim Cook, Asks Tough Questions About Touch ID original content from Ubergizmo. 
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