iPhone encryption stops FBI, but not this 7-year-old

[Dima007]

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http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/01/technology/security/apple-iphone-encryption-fingerprint/

Matthew Green's iPhone was safely locked -- until his 7-year-old son Harrison figured out how to grab his dad's finger to unlock it.

When it comes to privacy, Matthew Green is a guru. This college professor knows all about NSA spying, encryption, computer security -- the works.
Yet he's met his match: his 7-year-old son.

You see, Green owns an iPhone 6 Plus. That means everything on the phone is encrypted until Green -- and only he -- unlocks it with his finger.

But Tuesday morning at dawn, little Harrison crept into his parents' bedroom and walked over to his dad's side of the bed. He quietly reached for his father's iPhone, grabbed his right hand and pressed his large thumb onto the fingerprint scanner.

Green woke up and couldn't blame the kid. After all, it was dad who loaded the phone with Minecraft and Angry Birds Transformers.

For Green, who teaches cryptography and computer security at Johns Hopkins University, it's a perfect argument against the notion that iPhone encryption is unbreakable -- for thieves or police.

 

[Ink]

This is a joke.

 

[Tani]

lol

 

[Cch123]

I came in here thinking that they have found someone more brilliant than Einstein or Alan Turing...turns out its just a normal kid with a hyped up media.

 

[jamescv7]

Still passcode feature will work much better at any case, the action taken by a 7 year old boy is simply equivalent to persons wanted to view the informations in such urgency and curiosity without permission.

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

This also serves as a reminder (granted, it was a humorous spin on the game loving 7 year old that lives in many of us) of how we are never quite as safe as some would like to believe.