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by Esau 3636 days ago
Yeah, fuck Touch ID. In my opinion, a computer security feature that works when you are unconscious is not a computer security feature.
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Talk about throwing out the baby with bathwater. Being unconscious ir a very rare use case for iPhone. In other cases having protection provided by Touch ID beats passcode which is to inconvenient so many would skip and left without ANY protection. Touch ID is basically transparent and provides adequate protection for common scenarios.
I would rather have no passcode than use Touch ID.
Instead of being vulnerable in some specific scenarios, you want to be vulnerable in a lot of common scenarios as well as the original ones?
Correct. I feel that Touch ID is security snake oil.