If you're the first to successfully hack the iPhone 5S ' new Touch ID feature , you could win over $ 8,000 , more than $ 800 in Bitcoin , a pornographic magazine, and a few bottles of wine, tequila, bourbon, and whiskey.
This is the total reward – which continues to increase by the hour – that has been awarded for the new iPhone 5S by a group of hackers and security researchers.
The bounty, with a reward for each person who meets the challenge's requirements, was posted on IsTouchIDHackedYet.com on Wednesday night. The unusual bounty was published shortly after by ZDNet.
It all started with a Twitter conversation between security researchers Nick Depetrillo, Robert David Graham, Dan Kaminsky, and others, who were discussing the security of Apple's fingerprint scanner.
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Depetrillo, convinced that Touch ID would be very difficult to hack, decided to take on the challenge.
Graham then created the website and several hackers and security researchers began to deposit amounts that would ultimately be won by the highest bidder.
Depetrillo laid out the basic requirements for winning the award with the following tweet:
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The most troll-worthy reward is now a fact, without it even being clear whether hacking Touch ID is possible since it hasn't been released yet, hackers are waiting for it around the corner.
Apple, of course, immediately after the announcement of the new iPhone, was quick to inform that there is no chance of fingerprints being leaked since they are not stored anywhere on the device or in the Cloud.
On the other hand, Robert Bell, CEO of Biometrica, said in his blog: “Fingerprint technology has proven to be very easy to spoof and most fingerprint scanners are simple to use and not secure.”
