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		swamp40 on Sept 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S How does it work now when you have to type in your iTunes password to authorize an in-app purchase? I thought the password got hashed and sent out to Apple's servers to authenticate? If so, wouldn't a new fingerprint based password have to do the same thing?

hershel on Sept 11, 2013 [–]

I think they would implement a password manager, and instead of a master password ,they'll use fingerprints/fingerprints-hash

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