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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: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 15 2017, @01:39AM
Except for computer systems that make you type in a username AND a password, the username CAN be almost like a password: you have to guess the username AND the password.
If you don't know that Gaaark username for his laptop is Unic0rnPr0n, you have to guess correctly both username and password.
I'd rather someone have to guess both than just use my face.
***Or, did I misunderstand your point?? Tired...might have.
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