Touch ID fingerprint sensor on iPhone 5s hailed as potentially amazing

Agence France-Presse, 

With the swipe of a finger, Apple could jumpstart a new era of smartphone security and strip away fear of tending to banking or other business on mobile devices.Fingerprint recognition technology built into a sophisticated iPhone 5s set to hit the market on September 20 was hailed by computer security specialists as a welcome move that rivals will likely rally to match.
"It could be amazing," Lookout principal security researcher Marc Rogers told AFP on Wednesday.
"What is going to happen really depends on Apple's implementation," he continued. "We've seen Apple take obscure technologies and make them mainstream overnight."
Apple on Tuesday unveiled two new iPhone models, one of them a top-of-the-line 5s with innovative features including a fingerprint sensor to use as a security measure in place of passcodes.
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"You can just press the home button to unlock your phone," Apple vice president Phil Schiller during an event at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters. "You can use it to authenticate iTunes purchases."
Schiller added: "We have so much of our personal data on these devices, and they are with us almost everyplace we go, so we have to protect them."