Haha, no.

The fingerprint scanner's security still matters. It's 1000% more secure than not using a passcode at all. For your average person, it's probably even more secure than a passcode, which can be easily glimpsed over the shoulder. The scenarios in which this technique would actually be useful are highly implausible. As I…

If the police want your info, they can get it through other means. If any of those other people had my phone for the amount of time necessary to pull this off, I'd consider it to be missing.

You missed the part about "cleaning up" the photo (i.e. in Photoshop?) The fact that they included that "step" suggests that they had a lot of failed attempts until they got the scanned print juuuust right. In other words, it's actually a pretty good level of security for your average person.

So if your phone goes missing, disable it with Activation Lock. Problem solved.

Excellent point.

It wasn't exactly hacked. They just went through an elaborate process of photographing, scanning, Photoshopping, printing, latexing, and gluing, all just to copy a fingerprint. And for what? It can't be used to turn off Activation Lock, so the phone is still effectively useless to a thief.

I love how you can tell they were trying to make the process sound simple, but failed. E.g., "The resulting image is then cleaned up..." What, in Photoshop? How long does this 'cleaning' process take, and what does it involve exactly?

If you have info on your phone that's "spicy" enough to warrant that amount of effort, you should probably know better than to secure your phone with simple means.

It doesn't matter.

Pumpkin spice lattés for everyone.

Those are way huger phones with larger power envelopes. The iPhone retains a (desirable for many) lightness and thinness. Also, I've seen scores showing that the A7 beats the snapdragon 800.

"Newer phones"? You mean phones that haven't been released yet?

Like the Wii U, the Dreamcast actually came on the scene at the end of the N64/PSX/Saturn generation. It was more powerful than any of those consoles, but (again - like the Wii U), it was less powerful than the truly next-gen consoles that were on the way.

Those updates do get coverage, but they tend to have very staggered rollouts, and the vast majority of Android users might never even see them (until they one day buy a new phone). The install base of iOS is massive, and almost every one of those devices is getting an upgrade at the same time. It's also the biggest…

You get used to it, and then when you go back to using iOS 6 it looks cramp, dingy and out of date. Trust me, I didn't like all the white space at first either. (Been using iOS 7 since the first beta).

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I would strongly suggest not upgrading to iOS 7 if you're using an iPhone 4. It seems to be a little too graphics-intensive for the older phones.

Using "science" to prove an ideological point or support a corporate agenda is so widespread even in developed countries. This guy just isn't as sophisticated-sounding.

I'm a sucker for American atomic history, so this one has always been my favourite: http://ebchs.org/architecture/H…