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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, new Iphone will have fingerprint scanning
The new iPhone 5C will have what they call a "Touch ID sensor " on the home button, requires your fingerprint (thumbprint?) to activate, instead of a password.
Another name for it... an embedded fingerprint scanner
Think about that for a minute......
ok...how do you like the idea?
How do you like the idea when it spreads to other ID required objects?
Car doors?
ATMs?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57602131-37/apple-iphone-fingerprint-scanner-reportedly-confirmed/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/09/08/iphone-5s-to-ring-in-the-new-with-expected-fingerprint-sensing-home-button/
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)It's OK, but I usually need to lick my finger a little to make it work, and it often takes 2 or 3 attempts. Still quicker than typing in my password.
I'm guessing that the technology has improved and the iPhone scanner will be much more reliable.
villager
(26,001 posts)...since everyone will be giving them up voluntarily....
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Only iphone people so far.
villager
(26,001 posts)...for other devices?
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)buy any kind of smart phone. Mostly because I'm fine without apps, and don't want to be constantly bothered. Besides the fact that I don't have $200+ to buy it plus a monthly bill.
REP
(21,691 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and was not fingerprinted...
All that must have come about post 9-11, I guess.
REP
(21,691 posts)If you are a visitor in California over 18 and have a valid driver license from your home state or country, you may drive in this state without getting a California driver license as long as your home state license remains valid.
If you become a California resident, you must get a California driver license within 10 days. Residency is established by voting in a California election, paying resident tuition, filing for a homeowners property tax exemption, or any other privilege or benefit not ordinarily extended to nonresidents.
To apply for an original driver license if you are over 18, you will need to do the following:
Visit a DMV office (make an Appointment(s) for faster service)
Complete application form DL 44 (An original DL 44 form must be submitted. Copies will not be accepted.)
Give a thumb print
Have your picture taken
Provide your social security number. It will be verified with the Social Security Administration while you are in the office.
Verify your birth date and legal presence If your current name no longer matches the name on your birth data/legal presence document, see True Full Name and How to Change Your Name for more information.
Provide your true full name
Pay the application fee
Pass a vision exam
Pass a traffic laws and sign test. There are 36 questions on the test. You have three chances to pass.(Sample Test)
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/dl/dl_info.htm#two500
Edit: I got my CADL in 1998 in Mountain View; I was thumb printed. I think they started this in the 80s (it's on the DMV site).
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I know I DO recall having finger prints taken when I worked at an inpatient adolescence treatment facility in SF.
Thanks for the memory jog....
TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)...before it will allow you to select one as your "entrance" key? Perhaps they'll conceal this nefarious scheme to collude with Big Brother by assigning each one a number and for extra security require a fingerprint PIN.
Use the same thumb you presented to the DMV and you give the NSA nothing they don't already have.
AFAIK (and I admit this is very much inference from Hollywood) the presence of your thumbprint at a crime scene, is enough to label you a person of interest, but not sufficient (on its own) to compel the provision of the other 9 prints.
Alternately, use any other body part with a persistent pattern of surface ridges and avoid AFIS altogether. Toes might be a bit impractical, but there's the whole arc from the outside tip of the thumb to the pisiform bone (I think read the chart right) to work with.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)The new iPhone 5S (not the 5C) has a fingerprint scanner, but it's isolated on the device, not uploaded to the cloud.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I did not know that...
been living in Mayberry for some time now, so do not see what is new in teh Big City.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Not this shit again.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)So my brother was out on one of his long road-bike trips last week and apparently didn't zip up the pocket of his bicycle jersey all the way. He discovered his wallet and iPhone had dropped out when he returned. You can't cover sixty miles of roads and fields to find it.
The wallet was no biggie, because he was carrying only cash in it. But he was truly freaked about the iPhone. His email and all his work are on it (he's an attorney), and even though he had a security pass, he was very worried that someone might get into it all.
He had it shut down and decided to wait to get the new iPhone this week. He'll be very glad to know that a fingerprint technology, instead of a password, will be on it.
(PS: I don't lock my iPhone with a password, but I probably should.)
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)... if I injure my finger, I've got no problem with it.
EC
(12,287 posts)it lessens the chance of keeping your thumbs...that is if you have anything worthwhile to steal.
REP
(21,691 posts)Just having thumbs seems to lessen the chances of my having thumbs.
Just had my second hand surgery on my right thumb 4 weeks ago - four months after a thumb injury that landed me in the hospital for four days with a life-threatening infection. I'm talented.
you need them.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)isn't this about personal privacy and having a more secure way to keep your private stuff private? uh yeah...I think it is.
Baitball Blogger
(46,709 posts)Just say'n.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data by Marcel Rosenbach, Laura Poitras and Holger Stark (Der Spiegel Online pdf posted 9-9-13 via Cryptome)
http://cryptome.org/2013/09/nsa-smartphones-en.pdf
The Snowden Affair (National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 436 posted 9-4-13)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB436
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I love learning more, I really do!....
Thank you..and give your drooling beast a pet for me, ya hear?
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)the iPhone 5s will have the fingerprint scanning and the iPhone 5c has the different colors.
ksoze
(2,068 posts)The colors are moot as most will use a cover anyway.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I had to use that technology years ago to access compartmentalized spaces--why is it shocking that it would migrate to civilian applications?
It's TANG for the 21st Century....
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)You don't need to use it if you don't want to.
Personally, I like the idea. It would be great if I didn't have to carry keys and just used my thumb. The only problems are if you hurt your thumb and have a bandage on it, or if it is cold and you need gloves/mittens.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)It would save the lives of little children from irresponsible gun owner parents.
When I worked at a Non-Profit Agency for the Developmentally Disabled in 2005, they had a fingerprint scanner at the front door. All employees were fingerprinted (by law) and had to use that scanner to get inside the building.
Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel
(3,273 posts)It works, another way to get the screen dirty...