Don’t enable your iPhone’s ‘Touch ID’ if you have something to hide
Memo to crooks: Avoid fingerprint IDs — especially when it comes to the iPhone.
While the FBI was unable to crack the passcode on the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, the feds are having a far easier time busting the criminally stupid who use Apple’s fingerprint-driven “Touch ID” sensor.
When the newfangled feature was introduced to the iPhone 5s in 2013, it was billed as a security enhancement — a beefier protection from would-be snoops than a numerical passcode.
