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Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release

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

iWantToKeepAnon writes:

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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @05:58PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @05:58PM (#596882)

    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?

    I guess this means they have to stop shooting people in the face. Talk about crimping their style ...

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

    by Justin Case (4239) on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:06PM (#596885) Journal

    No, just use the stun gun you hate because movie cops don't use it. Then, when the "suspect" is down, use the unconscious face to unlock the phone.

    Now you can blow their head clean off. In self defense of course.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:47AM

      by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:47AM (#597092) Journal

      You just have to remember to turn off the bodycam first!

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