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		mtm on Sept 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple unveils 64-bit iPhone 5S Apparently, the fingerprint data is stored directly on the A7 and is not accessible to non-OS software; also, not backed up to iCloud. It will be interesting to see just how secure that data is.

derefr on Sept 10, 2013 [–]

Presumably it's just a bog-standard TPM (the only non-standard part being that it's part of a SoC.)

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