No rethinking needed. Machine learning does wonders and unless you were there testing Face ID with Apple, I find your calculations hard to believe.
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Face ID Appears to Fail at Telling Apart Brothers Who Aren't Twins in New Videos [Updated]
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Because a $1200 phone might deserve a higher level of scrutiny in regard to false advertising?
Because this is a security issue - I hope there is followup by Apple on this article to explain how/why face id failed in this case. Lots of folks have relatives who look similar, and wear similar glasses. It might be interesting if we could see these guys illustrate the same failure with several different iPhone X devices. Perhaps this particular phone is defective, which is also problematical from a quality control standpoint, but not as disastrous as consistent face id failure across all phones with the technology implemented.
Why? So that the convenience of Face ID is flushed down the toilet? The chances of a false positive for Touch ID were only 1:50000, where as Face ID has 1:1000000. The problem is, that we can find someone that resembles us much faster, because our facial features are more obvious than our finger print.
Not necessary. Just keep your phone on you at all times or disable Face ID.
People can’t possibly be in situations all the time where they’re in fear of a look alike stealing their phone and getting their information...
Okay, we get it. You decided to pass on the iPhone X. No need to remind everyone in nearly every forum.
Touch ID is less secure because Apple said so or there is real life evidence. Serious question. Not trolling.
With the iPhone X now in the hands of thousands of customers around the world, many early adopters are putting Face ID to the test to see if Apple's facial authentication system is as secure as it advertises.
Apple says the probability that a random person in the population could look at someone else's iPhone X and unlock it using Face ID is approximately 1 in 1,000,000, compared to 1 in 50,000 for Touch ID, but it notes the probability of a false match is different for twins and siblings who look like you.
We've already seen that Face ID can be fooled by identical twins, and now a video shared on Reddit appears to confirm that Face ID can sometimes fail to distinguish between siblings who aren't twins but have similar appearances.
In the video, the sibling who set up Face ID on his iPhone X was able to unlock the device with his face as expected. Next, he handed the iPhone to his brother. Face ID didn't authenticate his brother's face upon first attempt, but once he put on a pair of black rim glasses, his face was able to unlock the iPhone X.
Apple is very transparent that Face ID can be less reliable in these situations, so the video doesn't come across as a PR disaster in the making for the company. But, it does suggest that Face ID isn't 100 percent failproof.
For those concerned about the security of their iPhone X in these cases, Apple's only recommendation is to use a traditional passcode instead of Face ID for authentication. Unfortunately, at least for the time being, that means disabling one of the key new features of a smartphone that costs at least $1,000.
We've reached out to Apple for comment, and we'll update this article if we hear back.
Article Link: Face ID Appears to Fail at Telling Apart Brothers Who Aren't Twins in New Video
Lucky thing I don’t have an evil twin then, or non-twin evil brother. But seriously, what’s this all about? Before FaceId, someone could steal your password by peeking over your shoulder as you typed it. Nothing is completely secure. The question is just if it is secure enough for your personal emails? it propably is.
Exactly, finding your fingerprint match is much harder. Finding family members or people that look like you is most likely easier.
I vote for TouchID and FaceID together. There are going to situations (like wearing gloves) that I might want TouchID turned off for a bit. But, normally, I would want both.
I'm sure it will only improve but it's still longer odds than Touch-ID. Also so far the failure have all been between people with blood-line relationships. So unless you don't trust your immediate family it's not a problem. If you don't trust your family you have much bigger problems.
Why doesn't everyone realize that Face ID/Touch ID is an added convenience, not an absolute solution for guarding one's privacy? A complex passcode is the most secure and Touch ID/ Face ID are born out of eliminating the inconvenient of having to type the password every time. Having 2-steps verification to unlock defeats the very purpose of Touch ID/Face ID.
Also, so many people act like they are so high-profile they need to guard their phone contents with their life. For the most of us, Face ID works just fine to deter strangers from opening the phone when you lost track of it until you can lock the phone remotely.
Also, so many people act like they are so high-profile they need to guard their phone contents with their life. For the most of us, Face ID works just fine to deter strangers from opening the phone when you lost track of it until you can lock the phone remotely.
If the police are investigating and hold up the phone, just close your damn eyes.
It IS quality. Have you seen other company’s offerings? Trash.
Majority of people are making something out of nothing pretending they live in constant fear of someone getting into their phone using Face ID and steal their nudes and whatever else.
I can tell you what happened: Face ID was probably just set up. Face ID did reject him at the start, but because he persisted AND the neural network was not yet trained very much, it assumed that it must be the same person.
It is not a quality issue it is a neural network issue. This probably would not happen after a week or so, as the neural network would have the face nailed down thanks to all the scans it did over that period.
Face ID always feeds itself with new scans to be up to date. So as it only had a few scans it assumed, that his brother, after he persisted might be the same person, but that the image quality was worse than in the start.
Effectively!
Another exemple would be if you wanted to force a users to unlock is device. Whit a passcode, you will need to torture the guy and this could be pretty time consuming. With Face ID, you just need to cut his head.
Yup, lord knows how many thousands of beta testers will be robbed by thieves who happen to look just like their twin brother.
Oh wait.
Lmao this is unbelievable. If you’re a criminal then maybe disable Face ID. About to get pulled over and you have drugs? Disable Face ID.
The comments here are crazyyyy.
What’s interesting is they’re not making any money off this, so they’re really wasting their time. If they were paid researchers it would be a different story.
Nope. For the machine to learn from this it would need some feedback loop to tell it that it made an incorrect identification. That feedback doesn't exist so it will most likely keep on doing this.
Your statement is not correct. Providing more positive training examples will not improve the accuracy in this case. It has to be false positive examples. Namely, you have to have a feedback mechanism which tells the phone that it makes a mistake.
Also, did I hear Apple said this one is more secure than touch ID? Where is the transparency coming? Anyway, I bought 2 of these....
Remember that episode of Tom and Jerry where Tom tapes open his eyes?
Does it exist any video like this for Touch ID? Otherwise it seems Touch ID is MORE secure than FaceID.
It is hard to see that someone's fingerprint looks like your's, while it is easy to see that someone's face is similar.
It is hard to see that someone's fingerprint looks like your's, while it is easy to see that someone's face is similar.