iPhone has already been hacked

As we all were afraid of, the new iPhone fingerprint scanner has already been hacked. Yesterday mid afternoon Buzz Feed released and article saying the Chaos Computer Club has created a fake fingerprint using a photograph on transparent paper and then "pink latex milk or white wood glue is smeared in the pattern created by the toner onto the transparent sheet." 

Here's the article: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-iphones-fingerprint-sensor-has-already-been-hacked

If you wanted to go through all that trouble to steal and crack into my phone go right a head. You deserve it. 

These hackers are obviously more advanced than your average thief. But lets look at this in the business world. According to an article on venturebeat.com there is about 300 million active iPhones. So obviously there are a lot of executives who use iPhones. If a hacker were to steal a phone and could steal a fingerprint half the battle is already over to get into that phone and could possibly get into company e-mail. Who's to say there would even be a passcode on the phone. As we discussed in class Yahoo! President Marissa Mayer said she thought the fingerprint scanner was a great idea because she did not like typing in her code 15-20 times a day. Imagine the possibilities of getting into her phone. 

I have a problem with idea of the fingerprint scanner itself. Sure it's cool and we can all feel like secret FBI agents, but it is actually taking away from the authentication process. I feel like a fingerprint is something you have and something that you are. Genetically you are you fingerprint. I know that you can set it up to be your cat's paw or your nose but not too many people are going to do that. But because it is taking away from the authentication process I feel that Apple is actually making their phones security weaker not stronger.