In an interview with Reuters, Sonny Dickson, an Australian teen and known leaker of Apple iPhone 5S, successor of the Apple iPhone 5, and Apple iPhone 5C components, said, “I’ve been doing this for many years, so I know what looks fake and what’s not.”
He adds, “I trust what they say to me – but I also back up the story with other people to make sure what I’m posting is legit.”
Confirming Dickson’s claims is former UPEK CFO, Philip Smith. Speaking to SlashGear, he said, “This is real. The silicon sensor is the teeny blob in the light colored disk. The black square connected to it is the co-processor that goes with the fingerprint sensor to process the fingerprint data pulled it, comparing it to the data stored that will identify you as the authorized user, thereby unlocking (or denying if it is not you). It also provides the access security separate from the main phone processor, reducing the ability for it to be hacked.”
“This was a big deal when we (UPEK, the inventors of this in the early 2000′s) introduced it for PC’s. Our competitor, Authentec, did this processing on the main PC Intel processor – which was totally open to being hacked. Authentec went public, bought UPEK and then sold itself to Apple.”
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