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Should you disable Touch ID for your own security?
MacWorld ^
| May 2, 2016
| by Glenn Fleishman
Posted on 05/09/2016 12:39:28 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Does that mean I gotta get a new phone?
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:40:11 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:40:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: dayglored; ThunderSleeps; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:43:19 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:43:36 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Swordmaker
The obvious solution would be not allow anyone with a name like “Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan” in the country.
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:44:13 PM PDT
by
VerySadAmerican
(Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
To: Swordmaker
I cannot believe the courts have not clarified this. A court can’t force me to give up a password yet they can force my finger to unlock a device?! Incredible.
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:44:18 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Make America Great Again Starts with America First! I stand with Trump.)
To: rktman; Swordmaker
I seriously doubt it.
You can always wipe it if have secrets from your illegal activites.
If your question was meant to be funny you succeded. You asked Man From Apple on the inside track.
To: Swordmaker
If you are worried about someone using information on your iPhone, all you have to do is turn it off.
Once they turn it back on, it will require the passcode -- it won't accept a fingerprint to unlock it.
To: Reno89519
I cannot believe the courts have not clarified this. A court can’t force me to give up a password yet they can force my finger to unlock a device?! Incredible. The courts have ruled that fingerprints can be taken for ID purposes but NOT for unlocking purposes. This Magistrate Judge may be off the reservation.
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:46:47 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: Swordmaker
The judges could have as easily ordered the owner of the phone to give up the password
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:51:47 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Swordmaker
Only use a password or phrase, and you could refuse and say that the password is the name of a person you murdered, and if divulge the password, you are incriminating yourself.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
It’s just that my current phone doesn’t have the finger print option on it. I certainly want to be able to unlock it for the feds if they need to check it out. LOL!
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:52:53 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: Swordmaker
Isn’t the fingerprint pattern translated into a digital code? Doesn’t that mean it’s actually a “password”?
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:53:23 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
To: Swordmaker
I don’t have an I-phone or a smart phone, just a Trak-phone with a few numbers and nothing else stored in it. It doesn’t even have a built in camera
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posted on
05/09/2016 12:55:50 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Reno89519
Reno89519 wrote: “I cannot believe the courts have not clarified this. A court can’t force me to give up a password yet they can force my finger to unlock a device?! Incredible.”
The court can also force you to provide your fingerprints in an attempt to match your prints to those on a murder weapon. Same thing.
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posted on
05/09/2016 1:03:40 PM PDT
by
DugwayDuke
("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
To: Swordmaker
The Miranda rule: "You have the right to remain silent." should cover this.
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posted on
05/09/2016 1:03:42 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Swordmaker
I never set mine up. Now I never will....
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posted on
05/09/2016 1:07:28 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Swordmaker
If they show up at your house with a warrant and you don’t let them in, it’s up to them to kick the door down.
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posted on
05/09/2016 1:11:50 PM PDT
by
fruser1
To: DugwayDuke
In that case, they already have the weapon with the fingerprint on it, so they have reasonable cause to ask for the person's fingerprint.
In the case of the phone, they do not know what is on it, and they want the fingerprint for a fishing expedition into the data.
-PJ
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posted on
05/09/2016 1:18:56 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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