iPhone 5S Insecure Fingerprint Scanner | Hacking iPhone5S touchID | touchID as UserName not Password

Last month Apple unveiled and released yet another iPhone, complete with a fingerprint scanner for password access and a new classy clean look and feel. Some are suggesting that using a fingerprint as the password is a terrible idea, if anything a fingerprint may be used as a username or ID. Skeptics claim that we put our fingerprints everywhere, including all over the fingerprint protected iPhone 5S.

Also last month the Chaos Computer Club demonstrated in the video below just how insecure the Apple TouchID is.

If the absolute insecurity of biometric locks on your iPhone is not enough to discourage or prevent you from using this type of technology, you should be concerned about PRIVACY. Tim Richardson of Apple's North American Marketing team admitted that Apple will be sharing this data collected from their users with the NSA and possibly other security agencies.

 “Frankly, if a person is foolish enough to allow something as specific and criminally implicit as their fingerprints to be cataloged by faceless corporations and Government officials… Well, you can’t exactly blame us for capitalizing upon it, can you? Personally, I believe this effort will support a greater good. Some of the folks they’re hoping to apprehend are quite dangerous. Besides, it’s not like this is covered in the Constitution.”                     - Mr. Richardson

 The horrible truth of the entire thing is that users, Apple users, are readily volunteering this information under specific terms which grant  Apple permission to share personal data like fingerprints with government security agencies. These government agencies claim this type of technology could greatly help in apprehending criminals who have alluded the government for some time, by the creation of a special database, able to be merged with Apple's biometric database.