> 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.
... 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".