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[ale] Ouch. Stay away from proprietary technology.
- Subject: [ale] Ouch. Stay away from proprietary technology.
- From: james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:36:30 -0500
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/02/new-ios-9-2-1-build-will-un-brick-iphones-affected-by-error-53/
"We apologize for any inconvenience, this was designed to be a factory test
and was not intended to affect customers. Customers who paid for an
out-of-warranty replacement of their device based on this issue should
contact AppleCare about a reimbursement."
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:20 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Steve Tynor <stevejunk at iintiip.com> wrote:
>
>> Disabling the fingerprint recognition upon detecting this sort of
>> "tampering" seems like a reasonable thing to do. Bricking the phone, not so
>> much.
>
>
> It should really be a step during setup/upgrade: "What do you want to
> happen if we detect a fault with Touch ID?"
>
>
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