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I wonder if they have tried using their arseholes yet, it would appear that there enough of them around.
A pair of fanbois in China have exposed their chests to the world in a bid to prove the iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner can be tricked into accepting nipples. The internet has been ablaze with rumours that toes, penises, noses and even the paws of a pet cat can be used to trick the iPhone 5S fingerprint detector. However, …
. . . The waterproofing is still damn cool, though.
Not half as cool as the way of unlocking any iPhone with the thermodescram method: It unlocks not only the fingerprint scanner, but also older iPhones that need a passcode, bypassing the security features by simulating the manufacturing conditions during the final checks.
It takes quite careful timing not to lock it into factory test mode, though, so you must be quick.
You put about a pound of sand onto a double sheet of aluminium foil and heat that up in a conventional oven (not a microwave!) to 235°C (450°F, Gas mark 5). You can fold the foil over to keep the sand in better, 15 minutes should do the trick if the oven was preheated.
When it's ready, prepare a good, watertight (iPhones are, of course, not really waterproof!) plastic bag by putting 4 cups of freshly crushed ice and 1 cup of salt into it and mix that thoroughly.
Now comes the tricky bit. put the locked iPhone onto a chopping board and then the aluminium foil pack on top of it. Careful, quite warm, use oven gloves. This simulates the soldering bath to the chip and switches off the security features for testing; leave it on there for about 2 minutes. The Apple CPUs expect a factory test now, if the temperature drops slowly. This is where your ice bag comes in. That cools it down before the lock can kick in again. So, aluminium-and-sand bag off, plastic bag on (a few dew drops aren't dangerous), a bit of pressure, and after a minute or so every iPhone lock will be disabled.
I think I've heard it works on Samsung Galaxys as well.
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"the waterproofing powerdown is rather innovative, truth be told"
Not so. When my now 80+ year old Dad was an apprentice at [large UK electrical research plant] there was a popular and expensive (in them days) practical "joke" in which people were called on their GPO phones and told by a "GPO Representative" that due to an earthing fault they needed to immerse their handsets in a bucket of water.
I was reminded of this only last week when I got a call from an Indian gentleman identifying himself as "Windows" who told me that every time I signed onto "The Internet" I was "causing viruses".
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Are you old enough to remember pay phones? In the days before anyone even thought of carrying antibacterial gel around? Oh god, I hated using pay phones and there was no other option.
The handicap accessible ones and those made for use while inside a car with the really long cables were the worst. Even a pre-Internet knowledge of Human depravity sent the mind to horrible, horrible places. At least with modern technology you can sterilize a mobile phone. Carrying around a phone booth size UV chamber really wasn't an option.
Neither the fact that people try things other than fingers, or the fact that these appendages work, surprises me. Some of them would yield better results than others I suspect. The end of one's nose, or nipple is usually quite smooth compared to one's fingertip or toe, and thus would likely produce more false positives.
Still, the fact one can use their toes might prove, em, handy, should someone find themselves without fingers one day. That said, the phone's usability might stop there … that screen looks a bit fiddly to use with ones toes, let alone how one holds a phone to their ear with their foot.
That'd take a lifetime of practice I should imagine.
As penises and nipples both undergo dimensional and morphological changes when suitably stimulated, this raises the question of whether or not Apple's software can determine the same body part independent of said body part's engorgement or surface moisture level. If not, then choosing the excitement level for unlocking becomes very important for fanboi (and girl) wankers.
Regarding people dunking their phones under water because of a fake ad claiming software update somehow adds hardware features....
Some^H^H^H^H Apple fanbois are dumb.
Here's my favorite quote from the rocketnews24 article:
"As we know, nipples are like snowflakes in their individuality but is the iPhone good enough to distinguish one teat from the next? Our reporter Hatori GO registered his nipple and then asked a co-worker to try and unlock it.
After getting released from central booking, he decided to ask a male co-worker to try unlocking the iPhone with his nipple instead. Sure enough, foreign areolas could not bypass the iPhone’s solid security system."
LOL.