Major off-topic here, but back in college (around 93 maybe?) I showed that episode in class (with discussion after) for an assignment in a communications class. It worked perfectly, I got an A. Fantastic episode.
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Samsung Admits Major Security Flaw in Galaxy S10 Under-Screen Fingerprint Sensor
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Major off-topic here, but back in college (around 93 maybe?) I showed that episode in class (with discussion after) for an assignment in a communications class. It worked perfectly, I got an A. Fantastic episode.
Honest question, I have no FaceID phone, would it work for me the way I am used to use my iPhone for car audio?
What I do, many times per commute, is to blindly unlock and activate Siri with a “double click” of the home button, and then tell the phone to play this or that.
“Hey Siri” does not work for me, way too unreliable. Grabbing and looking at the phone is also no good, as that is both unsafe and a serious traffic offence in my country.
Do FaceID iPhones have a good way to handle this?
This does not mean that a similar case (not a screen protector) can be fitted to phone and it can be unlocked by any finger print.
I agree. But I’d phrase it more as when you enable Face ID. Have a second person that looks like you start using it and enter pin every time it fails. FaceID will slowly learn the second persons face and will work on both. It will not learn a second face if they look nothing alike.
I know my girlfriends pin on her XS and have entered it many times when faceid fails. But that’s just it. It always fails first as we don’t look alike.
Man, that’s whataboutism at its finest. Airlines have restrictive rules on lithium ion batteries. Not about MacBooks in particular. What able does have is more time from smaller batteries, because they make the stack. With Samsung, we‘re talking about one particular phone, where they crammed so much in one package that a large number of cases of Galaxies catching fire in the early weeks. you weren’t allowed to bring them on planes.
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I use CarPlay, and once you attach the iPhone with the lightning cable, it can lock any time it wants, the lightning cable remains able to play music, etc.
Android has a very simple and secure solution to this issue. One's phone can be set to be unlocked when connected to the car's Bluetooth system. This will permit full hands free operation of the phone. Or a passenger to use the phone.
Thing is: Now that we know a screen protector gel renders the scanner inoperable, someone will find an even more ubiquitous material that will do the same, like a bit of spittle, for instance. I would bet that the alternative for Samsung software is to lock the user out completely, when using the fingerprint sensor, and reverting to pin-only access.
My imperial evidence suggests that all motorcycle operators believe that rules of the road do not apply to them. Always speeding.
My suspicion is that once we get the full story we'll find that this user enrolled their fingerprint with the screen protector on which resulting in "blank" minutia being stored as their fingerprint. At that point anyone else putting their finger on that screen protector would produce the same "blank" minutia and thus match and unlock. If that's true the fix will indeed just be software and will reject enrollment of any blank fingers (more likely will require a minimum number of points of fingerprint minutia rather than strictly "blank").
If I'm right this is embarrassing but not the end of the world by any means, and easily remedied.
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Are you royalty or did you receive your evidence from royalty? ;-)
Just like some of the iOS bugs, FaceTime, error 53, etc weren’t the end of the world.
Samsung should increase their testing. This, is an obvious test to do, just as with the fold, to test it in real live not sterile conditions.
Replacing worn-out batteries (something that happens to every battery eventually) is not quite the same as replacing defective batteries that have a tendency to go into thermal failure.
Yeah, Apple had a big PR problem to solve - aging batteries would trigger CPU throttling because they couldn't deliver the peak power required. They could have eliminated/tweaked the throttling feature (software patch, like Samsung is promising for this fingerprint issue) and returned to a situation where the phones would shut down/restart if the CPU needed too much power. OR, they could address the underlying problem - worn-out batteries. They dramatically reduced the price for replacing the battery and told staff to replace any battery at that price, on a wide range of models, regardless of whether the phone really needed a new battery. So yeah, 3 million batteries replaced.
You may disagree, but yes, that was a support gesture for the benefit of the customers that improved the performance of their aging phones (and extended their useful life by about two years) - it was not a safety recall.
Now, no company is immune from receiving defective batteries from a supplier. However, there are quality control steps a company can take to minimize the chances. Maybe Apple's QC practices are more stringent than Samsung's, or maybe Samsung has been unlucky. Both companies have had recalls due to defective batteries - Samsung, however, has had, by far, the biggest need-to-recall incident.
Yes this is a bigger concern. Apps using biometric authentication on the S10 is a huge issue.
There won't be a gate, because this is not Apple.
All will be forgotten and all will be forgiven. Nothing to see here, folks, move along!
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I could just have my own and lay it on your phone and unlock it. It’s unlikely that a screensaver needs to be fully installed to work.
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Not using a screen saver just keeps it from opening for anyone. But anyone could still unlock it if they wanted to do so.
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That’s an extreme edge case. In normal usage Face ID is streets ahead of Touch ID.
That’s an extreme edge case. In normal usage Face ID is streets ahead of Touch ID.
The problem is a lot of people carry around a ton of personal information and access to very sensitive accounts and services on their phone. Being insecure makes it fairly unusable for a lot of people.