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Realistically 1) most people don't use a PIN code, 2) those that do use their birthday MMDD or DDMM.

If you think someone where you work/live might have to tools to lift your fingerprint from a beer bottle or spacebar, you probably have more serious problems than the contents of your iPhone.

I'm sure security nuts will put their iPhone in a shielded box with a coded lock on it, in addition to using (and painfully entering on each unlock) a high entropy passphrase that's as long as possible.

More power to them.

TouchID is a good enough to prevent my daughters from seeing the naughty texts I send to my wife (none of your business either), and that's more or less the level of security TouchID is designed for.



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