Why did Apple’s Touch ID generate paranoia, but Samsung’s Galaxy S5 fingerprint reader flies under the radar?Thursday, February 27, 2014 · 10:05 pm
“When Apple first announced the Touch ID feature for the iPhone 5s, we were treated to a few weeks of misplaced paranoia that, if you didn’t know any better, would have you believe that Apple was stockpiling user fingerprint data with the intention of selling them to the highest bidder,” Yoni Heisler writes for TUAW.
“Despite a number of security precautions Apple implemented with Touch ID, many in the blogosphere were quick to ring alarm bells. Senator Al Franken even went so far as to write a letter to Tim Cook airing his concerns,” Heisler writes. “And then there were an endless stream of articles detailing the myriad number of ways people might be able to easily spoof a Touch ID user’s fingerprint. The epitome of this bizarre paranoia came in the form of a unintentionally comical Toronto Star article which listed 10 reasons why Apple’s Touch ID is a ‘bad idea.’”
“Yet oddly enough, when Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S5 earlier this week with its own fingerprint authorization scheme, no one seemed to pay it any mind,” Heisler writes. “Never mind the fact that Samsung’s fingerprint sensor will be available to third-party developers and that the company announced a partnership with PayPal to enable mobile purchasing.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We await Al Franken’s letter to Samsung with bated breath. Oh, wait, that might not generate decent enough publicity.
Samsung’s half-assed implementation is such crap that nobody will use it anyway.
Apple leads, the rest follow like brain-damaged puppy dogs.
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