Just come across this. Is this the real deal?
http://www.ladbible.com/news/weird-...o-workers-face-can-unlock-her-iphone-20171215
http://www.ladbible.com/news/weird-...o-workers-face-can-unlock-her-iphone-20171215
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iPhone X Face ID is this real?
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Well considering there's BILLIONS of people in the world, "one in a million" starts to become more frequent than it sounds.
Haha true but it does cast doubtJust an ironic question coming from someone with your username.
The odds of someone unlocking your phone with FaceID that isn't you: 1 in a million (or whatever Apple says).
The odds of someone unlocking your phone with FaceID that isn't you who has stolen your phone or wants to gain unapproved access to your phone: 1 in a much more than a million.
The odds of someone unlocking your phone with FaceID that isn't you who has stolen your phone or wants to gain unapproved access to your phone: 1 in a much more than a million.
Just a quick thought:
If someone stole an X and walked around say... Manhattan NYC and tried to face unlock everyone, I wonder how successful that person would be
If someone stole an X and walked around say... Manhattan NYC and tried to face unlock everyone, I wonder how successful that person would be
Just a quick thought:
If someone stole an X and walked around say... Manhattan NYC and tried to face unlock everyone, I wonder how successful that person would be
The phone will lock out for some time after a certain number of incorrect matches. It will get so tedious that the guy will probably just give up.
If the odds of getting another face to unlock my X is 1 in a million, then that's another 320 or so people in the country who would be able to do this. Then let's factor in the actual odds of encountering one of these people to begin with, on top of having that person steal my phone from my possession and actively try to gain access. We are quickly approaching the realm of astronomical probability here. I'm quite content with the security of those odds.
My boss can unlock my iPhone X, he has done it on 10 or more occasions. We are both over 60, have white hair and goatees. I was shocked the first time he did it. I have reset my face ID, a couple times, he looks at it and it opens right away.
Scanning a million faces would take years. Unless you got lucky, the phone wouldn’t be worth much by then.Just a quick thought:
If someone stole an X and walked around say... Manhattan NYC and tried to face unlock everyone, I wonder how successful that person would be
Sounds like a good idea for a YouTube video though
Unless it's a riddle and the boss is the same person.
1 in a million doesn't mean impossible. Given that there are 6 or 7 billion in the world, 7,000 people could unlock your phone statistically. I'll take my chances. I took my chances with the 1 in 20,000 odds with TouchID. The scenarios that either phone would be cracked this way are pretty small. I can't believe this is news.
I'm trying to recall if there were similar stories circulating around people unlocking other people's devices with Touch ID.
I only recall stories about using sleeping people's thumbs to unlock the phones. I imagine chances of a random person accidentally unlocking a TouchID is remote unless they were trying to intentionally unlock it. You don't put your thumb on a locked phone unless you are right? However, someone could just pick up you X and not be trying to unlock it, but surprise! So probably less random stories like that. I wasn't worried even when I had TouchID. I've never heard of someone's phone getting hacked with these biometric devices for intentional, nefarious reasons. But, I live in a bubble.
Hi! just got my iPhone x 2 days ago.
I realized when I saw some other iPhone X , when the user unlocks it, there will be purple lights at the notch blinking.
However, mine doesn't have the purple lights at the notch blinking but I am still able to unlock it with face id normally.
Any idea why? Why is there the purple lights?
I realized when I saw some other iPhone X , when the user unlocks it, there will be purple lights at the notch blinking.
However, mine doesn't have the purple lights at the notch blinking but I am still able to unlock it with face id normally.
Any idea why? Why is there the purple lights?
You saw a phone with lights blinking? Or you saw a video of a phone where those lights appeared?
Both.. But does the purple light blinks when u unlock your iPhone x? I think the purple light is the dot projector or the infrared camera
There is no visible (to human eyes) light that should appear. Some cameras are more sensitive to infrared can pick up some of it at times, so in some videos that might appear.
ahh.. I see.. but I saw it with one of my friend's iPhone x and its there too.. Not sure but I will check again.
You use an iPhone ? does the light appear at the notch when u unlocking it?
There will be those very rare occasions where you will have somebody that resembles you where Face ID can be unlocked. But those rates are marginal at best and are not the same situation for most iPhone X users.
That is not how stats work.... It is adding a statistical value to the rarity of it occurring. In my field we call that Prosecutor's fallacy. If i were to put 759992400 billion red chips chips in a bag plus 7600 black chips and let you draw, you will NOT pick black 7600 times in 7.6 billion draws.
If you left out the chips that you took out each time, wouldn't that be the case?