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3D-Printed Heads Let Hackers – and Cops – Unlock Your Phone

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 24 2018, @09:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the MI6-in-real-life dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

There's a lot you can make with a 3D printer: prosthetics, corneas, firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge.

You can even 3D-print a life-size replica of a human head — and not just for Hollywood. Forbes reporter Thomas Brewster commissioned a 3D-printed model of his own head to test the face unlocking systems on a range of phones — four Android models and an iPhone X.

Bad news if you're an Android user: only the iPhone X defended against the attack.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/16/3d-printed-heads-unlock-cops-hackers/

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Monday December 24 2018, @10:49AM

    by looorg (578) on Monday December 24 2018, @10:49AM (#778065)

    Does it actually need the entire head? Just printing a/the face would be a lot faster and cheaper. Perhaps just a mask that you put on or over your own face (or some kind of dummy head).

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