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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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3D-Printed Heads Let Hackers – and Cops – Unlock Your Phone
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Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bradley13 on Monday December 24 2018, @02:17PM
Why bother with 3D? Cameras are, in the end, basically taking 2D images. In other experiments, a simple picture [arstechnica.com] suffices.
Biometrics are not passwords. News at 11:00.
Also: passwords may be legally protected (depending on where you are). However, afaik, any police anywhere are allowed to point your phone at your face to unlock it.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.