蘋果指紋識(shí)別功能引發(fā)恐怖斷指聯(lián)想
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????在傳統(tǒng)的弗洛伊德分析中，夢(mèng)見斷了一只手或是一根手指意味著對(duì)閹割的深層恐懼。這種理論能夠解釋亨利?布羅吉特的Business Insider公司員工對(duì)斷指的恐懼嗎？ ????甚至在蘋果（Apple）于上周二的iPhone發(fā)布會(huì)上展示最新的指紋識(shí)別系統(tǒng)之前，Business Insider的喬伊?雅諾就已經(jīng)做出了恐怖假設(shè)：小偷會(huì)為了解鎖Touch ID保護(hù)的iPhone 5S而砍下機(jī)主的手指。
????第二天，雅諾的同事吉姆?愛德華查閱了《科學(xué)美國人》（Scientific American）的往期雜志，咨詢了醫(yī)生（包括他自己的母親），然后撰寫了一篇專欄文章為讀者出謀劃策：這種情況下，丟失哪只手指或腳趾最不令人傷心。（答案是：不常使用的那只手的食指，或是踢足球時(shí)用不上的第四腳趾。） ????愛德華的這篇文章顯得有些匪夷所思，因?yàn)閿嗟舻氖种改芊窠怄iiPhone 5S這個(gè)問題現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)有了答案——不能。 ????雅諾引用網(wǎng)站CITEWorld的瑪麗?布蘭斯康的說法，在前一天撰文表示：“IPhone 5S的指紋識(shí)別要依靠人們手指皮膚下的活細(xì)胞層”。 ????互聯(lián)網(wǎng)新聞博客Mashable的阿達(dá)里奧?斯特蘭奇周六在與加州的指紋傳感器技術(shù)廠商Validity Sensors的專家談話后，得出了同一結(jié)論。 ????Validity的首席技術(shù)官塞巴斯蒂安?塔沃說：“采用（RF電容傳感器）這項(xiàng)技術(shù)，（指紋）圖像就必須采自活的手指。沒有哪個(gè)生物學(xué)專家喜歡討論斷指和尸體，但我們最終還是接到了邀請(qǐng)，來打消顧客的恐懼，確保他們知道（砍下來的手指）解不了鎖?！?/p> ????在這樣的情況下，“打消恐懼”這個(gè)詞難免令人遺憾。尤其是斯特蘭奇剛剛才又一次提到：馬來西亞的持刀暴徒為了發(fā)動(dòng)搶來的梅賽德斯S系轎車，砍下了受害人的食指。 ????最新消息：本話題已經(jīng)在市場(chǎng)研究公司Investor Village網(wǎng)站的AAPL Sanity版引發(fā)了熱烈的討論。一名用戶在周日打趣道，甚至包括安卓手機(jī)在內(nèi)的一切手機(jī)都會(huì)受到影響。 ????他寫道：“如果你準(zhǔn)備砍掉安卓手機(jī)用戶的手指，他會(huì)馬上告訴你密碼的?！保ㄘ?cái)富中文網(wǎng)） ????譯者：嚴(yán)匡正????? |
????In traditional Freudian analysis, dreams of losing a hand or a finger signify a deeper fear of castration. Could that explain the obsession with amputated digits among the staff of Henry Blodget's Business Insider? ????Even before Apple (AAPL) unveiled its new fingerprint recognition system at last Tuesday's iPhone event, BI's Jay Yarow had raised the specter of a thief chopping off a finger to unlock an iPhone 5S protected by Touch ID. ????By the next morning, Yarow's colleague Jim Edwards had read a back issue of Scientific American, consulted a couple of doctors (including his mom) and posted a column advising readers which finger (or toe) in such a situation they would miss the least. (Answer: The index finger of your non-dominant hand or the fourth toe on the foot you don't kick a soccer ball with.) ????Edward's piece was especially bizarre because the question of whether a dead finger could unlock an iPhone 5S had already been answered. ????It can't. ????"The iPhone 5S's fingerprint reader relies on "the living layer of skin under the surface of your finger," Yarow had written the day before, quoting CITEWorld's Mary Branscombe. ????Mashable's Adario Strange reached the same conclusion Saturday after talking to an expert at Validity Sensors, a California-based provider of fingerprint sensor solutions. ????"The [RF capacitive sensor] technology is built in a way that the [fingerprint] image has to be taken from a live finger," says Sebastien Taveau, Validity's chief technology officer. "No one in biometrics wants to talk about cut fingers and dead bodies, but at the end of the day we are still asked to remove the fears of consumer and make sure that they understand that [a severed finger] will not work." ????"Remove the fears" is an unfortunate phrase in this context. Especially since Strange had just re-told the story a machete-weilding Malaysian gang that chopped off the index finger of a robbery victim in 2005 in order to restart his stolen Mercedes S-class car. ????UPDATE: The topic has already been thoroughly chewed over on Investor Village's AAPL Sanityboard, where one wag claimed Sunday that all phones -- even Androids -- are susceptible. ????"If you begin the process of cutting off an Android phone owners finger," he wrote, "he's going to tell you his password."??? |
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