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iPhone X Face ID Again Unlocked With Mask, Even With 'Require Attention' Turned On
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OMG I running to Apple right now to get a new phone after finding out how many people are trying to make masks of my face.
I must admit...this is my first time posting in a long time...this thread reminds me of why...so much non-sense posting by haters or folks without such device.
yeah, you’re right...iPhone 8+ has TouchID that can be bypassed with PLAYDOH in MINUTES vs. this FaceID “hack”...and iPhone 8 with the inferior camera, inferior display that cannot display HDR/DV to the fullest, and 3 year old design. You’re right dude...YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY.
Yes... a lot is possible with the cooperation of THE OWNER OF THE PHONE. He's standing right there! They made a copy of his finger! Why are you surprised?
Otherwise... it's a pretty big hurdle if you just found a phone on the street or steal someone's phone.
Assuming they can get to your bank app they do not need your bank card number. Just transfer the money to a 3rd party bank account they control. Or better yet, set up a recurrent payment to that account and put in the memo field "membership" or something else innocuous.
Assuming the story is true, I wonder how many failed attempts they went through before finding the right “face” characteristics to get the phone to unlock?
Was it five or less attempts, at which point the phone demands a password? I doubt it. Can someone else read this story, find a phone, and get it to unlock in five or less attempts? Highly unlikely.
Am I worried? Truck no!
Was it five or less attempts, at which point the phone demands a password? I doubt it. Can someone else read this story, find a phone, and get it to unlock in five or less attempts? Highly unlikely.
Am I worried? Truck no!
How much technology/effort would be required to record/see someone type their pass code on their phone?
1000x easier than FaceID? But no ones complaining about that.
Anyone seriously seeing this as a security concern seriously needs to get their heads checked.
1000x easier than FaceID? But no ones complaining about that.
Anyone seriously seeing this as a security concern seriously needs to get their heads checked.
You also need the cooperation of the owner if you want to 3d scann his face and take some IR shots of his eyes, don’t you think?
But with Natwest here you can’t do that
You need a card reader to do that and your account customer number pin
Without that you can’t transfer it to any new account
These guys do it the other way round. Try to unlock with the mask. When it fails, unlock with your passcode. So it adapts to the mask. Now try that with my phone. You try to unlock with the mask. When it fails - oh, you're stuck. You don't have my passcode. And if you had my passcode, you wouldn't need the mask in the first place.
The iPhone only learns when you unlock the phone with FaceID (so it adapts when you grow a beard), or when you unlock with the passcode after a failed unlock with FaceID (if you shave your five inch beard off in one go). It doesn't work with a stranger's iPhone.
Scary to think that this means over 300 people in the US alone can open your phone.
It doesn't care about race. It doesn't care about colour. It cares about the exact shape of your face, millimetre by millimetre.
I'm pretty sure there are already many machine learning (ML) techniques to 3D model a human face based on 2D photographs or images that can be taken with any normal camera including smartphone cameras.
Can't wait until someone decides to use one of those ML techniques to produce a face mask to fool Face ID.
Can't wait until someone decides to use one of those ML techniques to produce a face mask to fool Face ID.
Yea I do because it is clearly the superior device. Everybody knows that. But if you own a iPhone X don't worry it's also ok. You can't always make the right choices in life.
Aha, sarcasm. Nice one
Unless you are claiming Apple hit it out of the ball park on the first try, way to go low expectations
Face ID Beta Testers, still think shrinking ship dates are from massive production increases? If so I for one want to know if there is any connection to the ease of bypassing Face ID and Apple reducing the security to increase production rates? This needs to be investigated at a high level.
Stay with Touch ID.
Oh I agree.
That's why all these "hacks" are kinda silly. You have the owner of the phone and unlimited retries with a known passcode. You literally have all the pieces and all the time in the world.
What's next... you can make a copy of my housekey if I give you my housekey?
I wish someone would give these guys a phone off the street. No owner. No known passcode. Then we'll see how they do.
I wear hobo gloves and mitten covers, one is going to have to work to get these prints
Actually, there are about 300 people in the USA who look exactly like you. Close enough that people can't tell you apart.