It came as no surprise that Apple Inc.’s new iPhone was hacked within a couple days of its release. The hack was hyped in the headlines all out of proportion to the hack itself. And the security vulnerability uncovered was really old and tattered. We have known for a long time that fingerprints could be compromised.
But it was downright fun to read in SC Magazine that there was already a crowdsourced bounty to crack the iPhone 5s — the first Apple product to feature authentication via a fingerprint scan — even before the phone was released. The bounty was around $20,000 when the first article appeared about the contest, though the amount dropped later when someone reneged on their pledge.
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