Police Can Unlock iPhones with Fingerp - iOS

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Posted 10/31/2014 at 2:30pm | by Leif Johnson


Police Can Unlock iPhones with Fingerprints, Ruling Says, But Not Passcodes

It looks as though FBI Director James Comey, long a critic of the iPhone's
security measures, may at last have something to cheer about. As reported
by The Virginian-Pilot (via MacRumors), today a circuit court judge in
Virginia ruled that the fingerprints used to access an iPhone through
Touch ID aren't protected by the Fifth Amendment, thus allowing law
enforcement officials to access the devices of suspects.

The ruling allows a workaround for police officers and other law enforcement
officials, who've previously been thwarted in their attempts to access
iPhones for evidence by rulings stating that handing over passcodes violates
the amendment. The amendment itself states that "no person shall be compelled
in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."

According to the report, "Judge Steven C. Frucci ruled this week that giving
police a fingerprint is akin to providing a DNA or handwriting sample or an
actual key, which the law permits. A pass code, though, requires the
defendant to divulge knowledge, which the law protects against, according
to Frucci's written opinion."

The case itself centers on one David Baust, who's accused of strangling
his girlfriend way back in February, and there's a chance he might have
filmed the attack with his iPhone. Prosecutors want access to the phone
to see if this is true, and Baust's fingerprint would allow them access
that a regular passcode would not. The catch is that Baust's phone is
almost certainly protected by the phone's passcode safeguard at this
point, which activates when a user hasn't used his or her iPhone after
48 hours.

It also activates in the case of a restart or when Touch ID has failed
to unlock the phone after three attempts.

This isn't necessarily the end of the story, however, as a higher court
could still overturn Frucci's ruling.

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米國法院裁定讓警察可以取得嫌犯指紋，這樣無須密碼就可以進入iphone

所以不能強制取得密碼可是可以用指紋XD，應該算是Touch ID 的壞處?

不過如果抗告高等法院也可能推翻此裁定.....

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