Tag: touch id
Experience matters more than features
Engadget reviews the Samsung Galaxy S5. Getting down to brass tacks, how well does the thing actually work? It depends. I trained the GS5 to recognize both of my thumbs and my right index finger, since those are the three digits I use the most when waking up the phone. Over the course of several…
How Apple’s Touch ID works
WIRED.com writes about Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint reader. Fingerprint reading is accomplished through a complex method. Touch ID is composed of an 8 x 8 millimeter, 170-micron-thick capacitive sensor located just beneath the home button on the 5s. This is used to capture a 500-pixel-per-inch (ppi) resolution image of your fingerprint. The sensor can read…
How Touch ID secures fingerprint information
TechCrunch reports on Apple filing a patent application for Touch ID. The patent describes a system that not only siloes data on the Touch ID “enclave” section of the A7 processor, but that also encrypts the fingerprint maps registered on the device to make it that much more difficult for any thieves to even attempt…