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?
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday November 15 2017, @08:03PM
You're remarkably naïve to think that they couldn't already lock you or me away if they wanted to. The vast majority of evidence can already be obtained through warrants, and even if all they have is "reasonable suspicion" they can still use that to make your life unlivable.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?