> The alternative would be at some point a headline like "compromised Touch ID sends fingerprints to bad actor".
There would be no such headline. Before update to iOS 9, the affected phones functioned normally, but with disabled Touch ID.
And if you have to know why people come up with theories like that - either Apple didn't think what happens to users who already had this hardware replaced or they thought about that. Maybe those who accuse them of malice simply overestimated their competence - after all, they make big claims about high quality, attention to detail and whatnot.
Not to mention that the first part of this comment makes sense and probably expresses well how people feel about this screwup.
> This is irrelevant. The problem is that those affected phones could still have had compromised fingerprint sensors.
... which wouldn't be used after the phone determines it's an aftermarket part. Equally well the attacker may have installed a malicious piece of brick inside.
> Apple did the right thing in protecting people from this
Sure, they protected users from using phone with replaced home button and disabled fingerprint scanner by bricking the phone completely.
Hard to tell in what proportions malice and/or stupidity were involved in this case, but either way it wasn't "doing the right thing".
Maybe something has changed after this article, I'm not going to make such claims anymore without verification.
However, you have to understand that when I posted this, I knew about cases (including TFA) when the problem had indeed been "rectified" by visiting a store (sorry, couldn't resist ;)) but no case when the device had actually been fixed and data recovered, whether this is technically possible or not.
There would be no such headline. Before update to iOS 9, the affected phones functioned normally, but with disabled Touch ID.
And if you have to know why people come up with theories like that - either Apple didn't think what happens to users who already had this hardware replaced or they thought about that. Maybe those who accuse them of malice simply overestimated their competence - after all, they make big claims about high quality, attention to detail and whatnot.
Not to mention that the first part of this comment makes sense and probably expresses well how people feel about this screwup.