I find it astonishing how goalposts are moved all of a sudden. Two days ago the fingerprint reader was hyped as a great unbreakable feature ahead of its time and about to replace passwords.<p>Now, after the release of this video (nobody saw <i>that</i> coming, heh), it's all about how the fingerprint reader is better than no password at all. I think that's a deeply wrong standpoint, as this is (now) demonstrably bad security marketed as good or at least sufficient.<p>People will not treat it as an emergency feature they can somewhat rely on while they think of a good passphrase. The Iphone is specifically markteted as being "easy to use" for non-technical people, and those people have <i>no idea</i> about security. Giving them a false sense of it is not "better than nothing", it's creating a demand for this bad feature for an entire market. Sadly, most people prefer convenience over security - scratch that - they don't even consider the security part, apart from it being annoying maybe.