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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: 4, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday November 14 2017, @10:05PM (2 children)
For fuck's sake. On the whole I don't mind Apple, but one thing about them that really does piss me off is this:
As if Apple fucking invented it. IT'S NOT NEW! I have an HTC One Mini Two in my hand from about 2014 that unlocks with face recognition, and I doubt that was the first phone to do it.
I remember when I had drooling Apple fanboys in 2010 telling me how awesome facetime was and how awesome Apple was for inventing it, when I had already got bored of video calling on my old Motorola Razr 5 years earlier. And then there's iPods, which were of course the first ever mp3 players in the universe.....
Why is it then when Apple releases some feature on their products, the entire world goes suddenly gaga over it and wows at how new it is, while simultaneously going totally blind to all the other brands and products that have been doing the EXACT SAME THING FOR YEARS?
(Score: 4, Informative) by meustrus on Tuesday November 14 2017, @11:38PM
Mainly because Apple's design and marketing make it easy for normal people to understand how to do these things. Apple's business strategy has long been to be late to market with the easiest-to-use product.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:05AM
From a 2015 Popular Science article [popsci.com]:
From TFA:
Apple is doing 3-D. Sounds new to me.