New Apple iPhone pushes biometrics 'into the mainstream'

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What makes Apple’s "Touch ID" significant is that it makes the enhanced convenience and security of biometrics a standard feature on the world’s most recognized smartphone platform.
And smartphones are where people are increasingly doing most of their business, from email to shopping to banking, says Martin Drew, president of iView Systems, an internet security firm based in Oakville, Ont.
"People hold their entire lives on these devices these days. If someone had access to your smartphone for two hours, the damage they could do to your life would be phenomenal," says Drew.
He says the biggest benefit of biometrics is that it makes typing passwords obsolete.


So  an american company like apple, which is requied by US Law to hand over every scrap of data it gets on every single user in the world , is now going to have your finger prints. Which is to say , NSA is now going to have finger prints of everyone in the whole wide world. The Same NSA that fabricated rape charges against Assage (the wikileaks guy) and is currently fabricating similar charges against another hacker taking refuge in canada with NSA documents in his possession ? 

This is the same USA that likes to arrange "regime changes" in Mexico on a regular basis, and at least once in Iraq and Afghanistan ? 

Oh ...you're going to point out that artical where it says Apple doesn't keep the entire finger print on file , it only keeps certain key points that distinguish one user from another ? it only keeps the parts that mean anything in other words ? 

As if that makes a difference.   How hard can it be to program a simple "connect the dots" program to regenerate a finger print from the important points that actually distinguish one person from another ? 

Two people can keep a secret , but only if one is dead. My favorite quote from Robert Heinlien a science fiction author. What does it mean ? It means no secret stays secret forever. Sooner or later , it will come out. Just like PRISM came out . Mark my words, USA will be caught stealing copyright secrets from other nations (they currently deny doing so , but with PRISM it's well within their means) and they will be caught planting finger prints and trying to frame someone. 

And they're going to look good with egg on their face, no one trusting them anymore , and no one wanting to do business with any USA company any more. Heck , I already don't want to do business with any USA company. 

Don't take my word for it, you don't need to. These secrets always come out on their own.  The only idiot is the one who thinks they wont. 

And yes, I 'm looking straight at Obama , or whoever the next president of the NSA might be.