Marketers, especially tech-savvy online marketers love their electronic gadgets. And they tend to be “early adopters”, getting the newest big thing as soon as it is available.

That’s fun and can provide some real efficiency boost for both life and business, but it also has risks.

The fingerprint scanner on new iPhones can fall into the risky category.

In an article early this week, the NY Times reported, “New findings published Monday by researchers at New York University and Michigan State University suggest that smartphones can easily be fooled by fake fingerprints digitally composed of many common features found in human prints.”

Later in the article, after explaining the process for spoofing fingerprints and reporting that with a little technology assist, ” you could get into 40 to 50 percent of iPhones within the five tries allowed”.

Apple is continuing to look into potential vulnerabilities, but reports that if you only have one fingerprint stored for the phone, the chances of a crook matching it and using your phone are 1 in 50,000.

Read more here: That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as You Think

New York Times

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