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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 14 2017, @04:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the steal-your-face dept.

Wired is running a story of hackers claiming to have broken Face ID on the new iPhone X.

When Apple released the iPhone X on November 3, it touched off an immediate race among hackers around the world to be the first to fool the company's futuristic new form of authentication. A week later, hackers on the actual other side of the world claim to have successfully duplicated someone's face to unlock his iPhone X—with what looks like a simpler technique than some security researchers believed possible.

On Friday, Vietnamese security firm Bkav released a blog post and video showing that—by all appearances—they'd cracked Face ID with a composite mask of 3-D-printed plastic, silicone, makeup, and simple paper cutouts, which in combination tricked an iPhone X into unlocking.

On a similar note Apple has repeatedly fought working with governments to unlock phones, if the police have a dead or detained criminal what is to stop them from just pointing the phone at their face and getting all the juicy data bits inside? Does Face ID *help* police/governments?


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @05:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @05:02PM (#596861)

    if the police have a dead or detained criminal what is to stop them from just pointing the phone at their face and getting all the juicy data bits inside? Does Face ID *help* police/governments?

    Uh it's the same for the other easy methods like fingerprints.

    You can use passwords or if you think you can get lucky that you'll be able to press the "cop sequence" so the phone requires a passwords .

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday November 14 2017, @07:23PM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday November 14 2017, @07:23PM (#596929) Journal

    what is to stop them from just pointing the phone at their face?

    Swat tactics will almost certainly be updated to avoid head shots, and quickly search for a phone, and unlock it even before the perp is actually dead.

    Faceid does time out after a few hours (I forget the details maybe overnight, IDK) so you have to be relatively quick about it.

    Turns out

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