iPhone 5S fingerprint sensor hacked by Germany's Chaos Computer Club

Biometrics are not safe, says famous hacker team who provide video showing how they could use a fake fingerprint to bypass phone's security lockscreen

An Apple employee instructs the use of the fingerprint scanner technology built into the company's iPhone 5S. German hackers say they can beat it. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP

Germany's Chaos Computer Club says it has cracked the protection around Apple's fingerprint sensor on its new iPhone 5S, just two days after the device went on sale worldwide.

In a post on their site, the group says that their biometric hacking team took a fingerprint of the user, photographed from a glass surface, and then created a "fake fingerprint" which could be put onto a thin film and used with a real finger to unlock the phone.

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Download WhatsApp for PC [Guide to use WhatsApp on Computer - 7/8/Vista/XP]

WhatsApp for PC! Many of you might be wondering but now you can actually make use of WhatsApp on Windows platforms and in the due course of this article, we would be providing a complete Guide to use WhatsApp on PC.

You are interested in this title pretty much implies that you are addicted to or are keen to use WhatsApp for PC  since you are probably not comfortable using WhatsApp in your 4 or 5 inch touch screen smartphone. Well, if that is the case, join the club. I too find it so pestering to get my fingers around those little buttons. Darn it!

Good for people like us; we’ve got an alternative to using WhatsApp on PC other than on an Android, Symbain, Blackberry or on an iOS. One can effectively use WhatsApp on PC, just like on any one of the above mentioned handheld devices. Indeed, with much more comfort! Technology has an answer for every problem. Just that, tech offers two answers for this one.
Fine; I’ll not keep you waiting anymore. Let’s jump right into the business of how to download WhatsApp for PC and use it that way. Make sure you follow the instructions carefully for downloading WhatsApp for PC.

Guide to use WhatsApp on PC:

In this how to use WhatsApp for PC tutorial, I’d be helping you download WhatsApp for PC in two distinct methods with screenshots. Both the methods help to install WhatsApp on PC with equal ease. So you can go for either. Both work well in my case.

1. Download and Install WhatsApp for PC using BlueStacks.
2. Download and Install WhatsApp for PC using Wassapp.

Method 1:Download WhatsApp for PC Using Bluestacks

BlueStack is an Android emulator that lets us install and use almost all Android apps and games on a PC.  This is how we’ll avail WhatsApp for PC using this android emulator. It is not just on PC that you can take advantage of BlueStack, but also on a MAC. When it comes to PC, BlueStack works on all widely deployed operating systems i.e., Windows XP, Windows Vista,Windows 7, and Windows 8.
Step 1: Get BlueStack from here and install it on your PC.

Step 2: Upon installation, open BlueStack. You’d find a welcome screen showing the top 25 Apps.
Step 3: Navigate to the My Apps tab next to top 25 Apps. You will find the apps that are downloaded by default here.

Step 4: In the same screen select App Search, wherein you’d be searching for the WhatsApp app.

Step 5: In the search bar that appears, type WhatsApp or WhatsApp for PC. The search engine searches for the keyword in Google Play, one mobile and the Amazon App Store, and shows a search result from all three stores.
Step 6: Select WhatsApp Messenger from the 1 mobile store. You then need to click install button against WhatsApp Messenger in the screen that follows.


Once done, BlueStack downloads WhatsApp for you. It takes about 2 minutes for this to happen.

Step 7: You will now find WhatsApp installed in you ‘My Apps’ tab. You are just one step behind; i.e., configuring your WhatsApp account.
Step 8: Open WhatsApp and click I agree with terms button.

Step 9: You then have to select your nation and put in your mobile number and say Ok.
Step 10: WhatsApp will now send you a SMS or Voice verification. You just got to enter the code you get via the SMS of voice call from WhatsApp.

Voila! You are now done with a fresh WhatsApp installation on your PC.  You’ve learnt to use WhatsApp for PC using Bluestacks App Player.

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