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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: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Tuesday November 14 2017, @05:46PM (4 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday November 14 2017, @05:46PM (#596878)

    "Password" is covered by the fifth, while "biometric" isn't...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:09PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:09PM (#596887)

    But what amendment protects this insane level of pedantry?

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:34PM (1 child)

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:34PM (#596897)

      The first.

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:31AM

        by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:31AM (#597085) Journal

        Why?

        Who's on first?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:34PM (#596899)

      The anti-1st?