Well, that didn't take long.

"Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) say they have successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's recently released TouchID on an iPhone 5s."(Mike Lennon, Security Week, 21 Sep 2013)

See the complete article on how they did it here: http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/23397-Hackers-Defeat-Apples-TouchID-on-an-iPhone-5S.html

On the dirty tricks front (NSA) there weren't any new revelations this week, just reaction:

"Security firm RSA sent an advisory to their developer customers warning against use of a toolkit that employs an NIST encryption algorithm by default that is suspected to have been “backdoored” by the NSA." (Anthony Freed, InfoSec Island, 21 Sep 2013)

This is an example of the damage to trust I believe the NSA has wrought, and trust in the strength of the encryption algorithms used to secure so much of the underpinnings of the internet is vital. I don't think the Law of Unintended Consequences has run it's course yet.

"Goodnight and goodluck"--to all of us.

Mark V2