iLose My Personal Info

            Looks like Apple thinks we enjoy having our personal information at a risk if it makes things easier for us. With some of the new apple devices, there has been a fingerprint scanner on these, found here. These record your fingerprints and then later, when you want to access the phone, you swipe your finger and it should work. The problem with this is that fingerprints is how the authorities identify you, and so it would be very easy to frame someone if they got ahold of copies of the prints.

            On a large scale, nearly every company has been hacked and had tons of information stolen which has led to millions of dollars lost to these hackers. Now, this kind of stuff is only credit card information, and once found out, can easily be solved. Fingerprints, on the other hand, can be printed out on a printer and then forged on to an artificial hand, which makes it extremely easy to frame someone for something that they did not do. Although it would be more convenient than remembering a four digit passcode with only ten choices, or for the more paranoid, a full keyboard with multiple letters, is the convenience really worth the risk of being framed or losing money just so you could go play a quick game of Angry Birds, or even worse these days, FLAPPY BIRD? (Currently trying to save someone’s life from being sucked in to it, do not download this game.)

            Although it would be secure, I really do not think it would be completely foolproof, because the digital scanners, unless they were extremely high tech which they should not be since Apple actually wants to make a profit out of these, would be fairly pixelated, and so would not remember the person’s exact fingerprints, so if someone else were to come along with similar fingerprints, the scanner would not be advanced enough to tell the difference and so would let them in. Even if it were only one person in a hundred thousand, keep in mind we have nearly seven billion people in the world. Not that there would be any sorts of important information in the device.

            On a micro scale though, this technology would be great. We all know those people who are really annoying, myself included, that when they see a friend’s iPod or iPhone just lying around, they keep putting in random passcodes until the phone locks itself for like thirty years. This would stop that because it would stop locking, since it guarantees it really is not the person. So, in the short run, it would be a great idea, but in the bigger terms of things, it is a truly outrageous idea.