Honestly, I think it's because attacking Apple seems to be in vogue nowadays. Thus, if you have an article attacking Apple, you can guarantee higher click-thru rates.
It really makes no sense. Fingerprint sensors have been built into Android phones (Atrix 4G comes to mind) since 2011 and in Windows laptops for many, many years. The sheer amount of articles discussing the Touch ID is actually astounding when you remember that Google's Face Unlock was cracked originally by a _photo_ of the user and then cracked with _two_ photos of the person. There are real, actually implemented cracks for Android's lock screen but that's been grossly overshadowed by the conceptual idea of possibly cracking Apple's Touch ID.
Ugh, no. This isn't an Apple vs Google or Apple against the world issue.
Wired is simply reporting the news and making people aware of potential pitfalls with using fingerprint ID on a device like this. Smartphones and tables are very popular now so what is in vogue is reporting on them.
Thanks to revelations of NSA surveillance of the last few months, these privacy-related topics are coming up more frequently now.
No, not referring to NSA at all, and nothing specific just my overall impression. I was just trying to say that for many years I dismissed the critics of Microsoft as being biased for various reasons and was somewhat a MS defender. I now think they suck, not in the way an Apple fanboy thinks they suck, just an intangible impression.
The endless criticism of Microsoft over the last 20 years was generally that they're not open source and had anti-competitive practices (ex, the browser wars.) How exactly has Microsoft's comeuppance had anything to do with these aspects? Their fall has been due to their shitty design sense and their inability to see the PC era ending.
The criticism has also been that they were acquiring/copying and bullying their way to dominance, which finally seems to be their downfall in an era where innovation and leading the market is a winning strategy. My comment related to the parent's observation that attacking Apple is in vogue not specifically to the fingerprint tech.
I would suggest that Apple is heading the same way but not literally. They are certainly closed source, about as bad as it gets, they are using their financial and political muscle to bully competitors and suppliers, they are coming back to the field in terms of innovation....
It really makes no sense. Fingerprint sensors have been built into Android phones (Atrix 4G comes to mind) since 2011 and in Windows laptops for many, many years. The sheer amount of articles discussing the Touch ID is actually astounding when you remember that Google's Face Unlock was cracked originally by a _photo_ of the user and then cracked with _two_ photos of the person. There are real, actually implemented cracks for Android's lock screen but that's been grossly overshadowed by the conceptual idea of possibly cracking Apple's Touch ID.