Yeah so… Apple has addressed this; they say this is not an optical scanner, does not rely on the top skin layer but rather conductivity of subdermal layers. In other words, they claim that the known vulnerabilities of past fingerprint systems do not apply.
Attack Apple’s claims, argue that they can’t be true, explain how this could be fooled by x or y technique, even just speculate about the as-yet-not-publicly-testable tech that Apple is touting: this could be interesting or useful.
Spread fearmongery bullshit about irrelevant stuff that Apple has claimed does not apply here: not interesting, and not useful.
I’ve seen lots of high-emotion discussion about the TouchID sensor, and almost all of it pretends that Apple hasn’t even attempted to address known vulnerabilities of fingerprint scanner technology. That’s just silly.
