Is the iphone fingerprint a bad idea?

I feel someone can steal that fingerprint… And steal your identity.

Biometric devices are in use in a growing number of products, including door locks, phones, and others. It may be possible to detect a fingerprint on an iphone button, but it doesn't seem very likely that an average person would know how to lift it.

It's a dumb idea because if you use biometric identification a finger leaves a small amount of grease and all a person has to do to get into a phone is place small thin bag of water placed over a scanner to trick it into opening the phone or any other form of biometric identifier that uses fingerprint analysis.

The NSA can use it to frame you for a crime with the CIA

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