The weird thing is, I’m willing to believe that Apple is only going to store the fingerprint signatures hashed in the protected area of their chip. However, that’s only a thin veneer of protection, since all one has to do is hook the fingerprint reader itself and grab a raw copy of the fingerprint before all of the hashing and encrypting take place. Apple hasn’t created an automatic fingerprint collection device, but the NSA could very easily turn it into one with a minor hack.
