“This is to fix a problem before it becomes a problem,” he said. BOSTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Hackers are gearing up for Friday’s iPhone 5S release with a contest to crack the device’s first-ever fingerprint scanner, a high-tech feature that Apple Inc says makes users’ data more secure.Ī micro venture capital firm joined a group of security researchers to offer more than $13,000 in cash along with bottles of booze, Bitcoin currency, books and other goodies to the first hacker who breaks the device in a contest promoted on the websiteĪrturas Rosenbacher, founding partner of Chicago’s IO Capital, which donated $10,000 to the hacking competition, said that the effort will bring together some of the hacking community’s smartest minds to help Apple identify bugs that it may have missed.
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