Exclusive: Apple admits, ‘iPhone 5s Fingerprint Database To Be Shared With NSA’

[RCA]

Edit: Parody Site

http://hackersnewsbulletin.com/2013/09/apple-admits-iphone-5s-fingerprint-database-shared-nsa.html

[enoch150]

Not true. Read the bottom of the article. Their "news" is from a parody site. The fingerprints are only stored locally on the device, according to actual reports from Apple.

I still wouldn't buy one.

[RickyJ]

Not true. Read the bottom of the article. Their "news" is from a parody site. The fingerprints are only stored locally on the device, according to actual reports from Apple.

I still wouldn't buy one.

Why wouldn't you buy one? Have you ever owned an iPhone?

[Flugel89]

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[enoch150]

Why wouldn't you buy one? Have you ever owned an iPhone?

No. I only buy dumb phones. I don't play games on phones and I don't use the internet with them.

I did have a smart phone (Nokia something or other) for work a few years back. It was fine for writing orders with it, but I couldn't stand actually using it as a phone. It was worse than the stupid over sized analog cell phone I had in the 1990's. They're just clunky and awkward for making phone calls. I also had a Nokia dumb phone at the time and loved it. Best call clarity I've ever had in a cell phone, and very long battery life. I've tried making calls on friend's iPhones once or twice and found it no better than the old Nokia smart phone.

[CPUd]

To disable the Touch ID sensor, touch it with your middle finger.

[enhanced_deficit]

This could go here too:


Rep. Mike Rogers Wife Stands To Benefit Greatly From CISPA Passing

April 25, 2013
http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/images/Mike_Kristi_Rogers.jpg

Story and Images by Mike Masnick
It would appear that Rep. Mike Rogers, the main person in Congress pushing for CISPA, has kept rather quiet about a very direct conflict of interest that calls into serious question the entire bill. It would appear that Rogers' wife stands to benefit quite a lot from the passage of CISPA, and has helped in the push to get the bill passed. It's somewhat amazing that no one has really covered this part of the story, but it highlights, yet again, the kind of activities by folks in Congress that make the public trust Congress less and less.

It has seemed quite strange to see how strongly Rogers has been fighting for CISPA, refusing (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130417/09330122741/cispa-renders-online-privacy-agreements-meaningless-sponsor-sees-no-reason-to-fix-that.shtml) to even acknowledge the seriousness of the privacy concerns. At other times, he can't even keep his own story straight (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130410/11570822664/cispas-sponsor-cant-even-keep-his-story-straight-about-nsa-having-access-to-your-data.shtml) about whether or not CISPA is about giving information to the NSA (hint: it is). And then there was the recent ridiculousness with him insisting that the only opposition to CISPA came from 14-year-old kids in their basement (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130416/13354422728/cispa-sponsor-claims-opposition-is-14-year-olds-their-basement.shtml). Wrong and insulting.

Of course, as we've noted all along, all attempts at cybersecurity legislation have always been about money (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100302/1024048361.shtml). Mainly, money to big defense contractors (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100517/1141179445.shtml) aiming to provide the government with lots of very expensive "solutions" to the cybersecurity "problem" -- a problem that still has not been adequately defined beyond fake scare stories. Just last month, Rogers accidentally tweeted (and then deleted) a story about how CISPA supporters, like himself, had received 15 times more money from pro-CISPA group that the opposition had received from anti-CISPA groups.

So it seems rather interesting to note that Rogers' wife, Kristi Clemens Rogers, was, until recently, the president and CEO of Aegis LLC a "security" defense contractor company, whom she helped to secure a $10 billion (with a b) contract with the State Department. The company describes itself as "a leading private security company, provides government and corporate clients with a full spectrum of intelligence-led, culturally-sensitive security solutions to operational and development challenges around the world."


GOP Politician Concerned Over Too Few Drone Attacks Since May (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?428811-GOP-Politician-Concerned-Over-Too-Few-Drone-Attacks-Since-May-%28Post-April-15-Boston-Bombing-%29&)

[MichaelDavis]

Now-a-days, Apple is famous in the markets because its new iPhone 5S has a Fingerprint Sensor (Touch ID) as a security feature—everyone is getting amazed with that feature and eager to use.

That Fingerprint scanner has been hacked already by German Hackers group ‘CCC’ but one more thing to concern about that—’will Apple share that Fingerprint database with NSA’ and the answer is YES.

http://hackersnewsbulletin.com/2013/09/apple-admits-iphone-5s-fingerprint-database-shared-nsa.html

Please update your post. This is a blatant lie.

[DamianTV]

To disable the Touch ID sensor, touch it with your middle finger.

Theres an App for that!

Easily hacked with a lifted fingerprint, and that news is NOT a Parody.

[eduardo89]

"I’m old. I’m not good at remembering passwords.” Said one Apple user we spoke with. “I like the idea of easily being able to unlock my Apple device with a fingerprint. But I also shouldn’t have to worry about being tied to a string of murders I committed in the 70′s… That’s not America and that’s not freedom…”

[RCA]

Please update your post. This is a blatant lie.

Done.

[RockEnds]

"I’m old. I’m not good at remembering passwords.” Said one Apple user we spoke with. “I like the idea of easily being able to unlock my Apple device with a fingerprint. But I also shouldn’t have to worry about being tied to a string of murders I committed in the 70′s… That’s not America and that’s not freedom…”

I needed a chuckle this morning. Thanks. :)

[HOLLYWOOD]

This could go here too: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kristi-rogers/4/658/aa3

GOP Politician Concerned Over Too Few Drone Attacks Since May (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?428811-GOP-Politician-Concerned-Over-Too-Few-Drone-Attacks-Since-May-%28Post-April-15-Boston-Bombing-%29&)More the big con artist game called Congressman Mike Rogers and his insider trader-racketeering wife, Kristi Rogers

Kristi Rogers Board of Directors at Aspen Medical USA
Washington D.C. Metro Area International Affairs
Kristi Rogers's Overview

Current

Board of Directors at Aspen Medical USA (http://www.linkedin.com/company/aspen-medical-usa?trk=ppro_cprof)

Past

Vice Chairman, Board of Directors at Aegis Defense Services LLC
President & CEO at Aegis Defense Services, LLC
Assistant Commissioner at U.S. Customs & Border Protection/DHS



Sr. Strat Comm Advisor at U.S. Department of Defense
Associate Administrator at US Department of Transportation
Special Assistant at US Small Business Administration (http://www.linkedin.com/company/us-small-business-administration?trk=ppro_cprof)
Deputy Communications Director at Michigan senate

http://www.manatt.com/KristiRogers.aspx


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http://www.manatt.com/uploadedImages/Content/1_People/Rogers,_Kristi/Rogers_Kristi_webbio.jpg Kristi M. Rogers
Managing Director
Federal Government Affairs and Public Policy
krogers@manatt.com
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Profile

Kristi M. Rogers has over 20 years' experience in strategic business development, program management, corporate leadership, crisis communications and executive-level problem solving in the defense and homeland security sectors, as well as senior executive service in the federal government.

Prior to joining Manatt, Ms. Rogers was president and CEO of Aegis LLC, a leading risk management and private security company. She assisted London-based Aegis Group in establishing Aegis LLC to provide government and corporate clients with a full spectrum of intelligence-led and culturally sensitive security solutions to operational and development challenges around the world.

As part of her strategic vision, Ms. Rogers obtained top-secret facility security clearance for Aegis, created the company's board of directors and positioned it for future growth and expansion. Ms. Rogers successfully developed and led a two-year pursuit-and-capture strategy to win a five-year, $10 billion contract under the Department of State's Worldwide Protective Services (WPS) program, which enables U.S. diplomats and government representatives to operate in strained, if not hostile, foreign environments.

After establishing a platform for Aegis LLC's long-term growth and profitability, Ms. Rogers was promoted to join its board as vice chairman, where she focused on business development and new-market-entry relationship building for Aegis LLC and the worldwide Aegis Group, drawing on her established global network of relationships with key stakeholders in U.S. federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies, foreign governments and leading private sector companies to pursue and secure new business opportunities in Latin and South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa, and to land U.S. defense and intelligence contracts.

Ms. Rogers' strategic advice and counsel are regularly sought on issues relating to strategic communications, security-sector reform and the role of business in complex and dynamic environments, including markets emerging from conflict. Ms. Rogers currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aspen Medical USA; and, is founder and current chair of the Women in National Security group within BENS (Business Executives for National Security).

Before joining Aegis, Ms. Rogers was assistant commissioner of public affairs for U.S. Customs & Border Protection, where, as senior communications advisor to the commissioner and CBP leadership, she managed relationships with the media, third-party organizations and public officials. Prior to that, Ms. Rogers served in Iraq as Ambassador L. Paul Bremer's strategic communications liaison to his cabinet of senior advisors, and as the director of strategic communications in the press office of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Before this tour she held several senior positions within the federal government, including in the Department of Transportation and the Small Business Administration. Ms. Rogers cut her political eyeteeth in Michigan politics, including working for Governor John Engler and in the office of the majority leader of the Michigan Senate, and serving as vice president of government and community affairs for the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce.