I told you that touch ID it works only with the fingerprint registered by a user in iPhone 5S and only with living fingers, so theoretically a person could not use the finger of a corpse or a silicon finger with an applied fingerprint to fool the system and unlock the terminal. This theory is tested now by a group of hackers who have collected the amount of $50.000 that they are offering to the first person who succeeds in repeatedly cheating touch IDusing a print taken from somewhere and applied to a surface.
A group of security professionals and other assorted white hat "hackers" are running an old-fashioned honor-system contest. A couple dozen of them have pledged various prizes to the first person who can outwit the iPhone fingerprint security sensor, the feature Apple calls Touch ID. They aren't looking for a software hack. They want to see someone reliably and repeatably outsmart the device by lifting fingerprints from, say, a beer mug. In other words, can Touch ID be tricked, rather than hacked?
Everything is organized, or better said "disorganized", in the form of a website in which various people made donations, and those who manage to cheat the system will have to "collect" them personally. Considering that we are talking about tricking the system and not a hack to extract data, it remains to be seen if there will be people able to find a safe method to exploit Touch ID, but the idea is interesting and demonstrates how important they are Apple products for the world.
