More than a year now Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), acquires an Israeli company called AuthenTec, which specializes in the development of security solutions for mobile terminals. In 2013 we see the fruit of the several hundred million dollars spent by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, iPhone 5S having implemented a fingerprint reader controlled by a system touch ID. USING touch ID and the fingerprint of any finger, the owners of terminals iPhone 5S they will be able to unlock the terminals and make purchases from iTunes Store, all in a safe way, without too much hassle.
Following the presentation of this system, I saw countless complaints on the Internet about the fingerprints read by touch ID, most fearing that Apple is going to generate a database with the fingerprints of tens of millions of people and conquer the world with it. More than that, Apple, NSA, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security and other US federal agencies with 3-letter acronyms are going to make a big cheer and dance around iPhone 5S reading, with the power of the mind, all the data stored in Apple's servers, so that later..., what?
Even if all these federal agencies had your fingerprints, what could they do with them? They would send secret agents to Romania to do, what exactly? It doesn't bother you that all the companies monitor your locations and they know where you are all the time, that is if you don't willingly share your location, but it does bother you that there is a small possibility that your fingerprints end up on I don't know which server. Apple has said very clearly that the fingerprints read by Touch ID are not sent anywhere, the authentications are based on tokens, so basically you have nothing to be afraid of. Moreover, Apple has a well-known attitude regarding the requests made by these agencies, refusing to provide data without official mandates, unlike other companies that provide data without any trace of regret.
All this hysteria generated because of Touch ID is simply pointless and you will have to get over it very quickly. If you ask why, well the answer is simple: Touch ID is just the beginning. 2 years ago, Apple launched Siri and the manufacturers of Android terminals scrambled to produce competitors. In 2013 Apple implements Touch ID, and next year Android smartphones will have fingerprint readers and similar systems. You see, the use of fingerprints to improve the security of mobile terminals is a thing of the future, soon they will also be used for mobile payments, so it would be good to get used to them.
