I will add to this:
It’s not just about the missing home button and ‘facial recognition’ tech really isn’t all that new per se, but with Face ID, it actually uses 3-D facial mapping versus 2D facial mapping as Samsung uses with the Galaxy series. So in the sense of biometric security, I think 3-D facial mapping is fairly incredible technology that is still evolving and it has a promising future, Even though I Believe Touch ID is still very relevant technology in biometric security.
Considering how many of my relatives are visually indistinguishable, I’d rather have fingerprints. This includes relatives that are so far detached that they’re not even related other than if you go back hundreds of years in genealogy.
If it wasn’t for being different ages, numerous members of my family would be considered identical twins. As in at the same ages, they all look identical.
Oddly, this is also true of all the lineage on my Father’s side going down the line. And my mothers side going down the line.
Now, the smart ones among you may call B.S. because then how does that work with me??? Well, simple, I don’t carry my father’s genetics. He’s not biologically my father.
But if you go from my children and back through me, my mother, my uncles, grandparents, and on backwards and then down forks stemming hundreds of years back... all down those forks are numerous identical matches.
My fathers line is the same. In that looking at his kids is like looking at my father exactly when he was in his 50’s, 40’s, 30’s etc.
How do I know when I’ve met another step brother??? When I’m standing in front of my dad and he’s suddenly gotten younger.
These similarities match speech patterns, voices, every single detail. There is absolutely no difference other than age. On both sides of the family.
So... if I used Face ID, all you need to get into my phone is anyone who is my gender and is genetically related somewhere down some fork in the family tree.
You want the really odd thing... even though none of these forks have ever crossed paths, they’ve even made the same first name choices on the ones who match visually with that name in other forks.
So how did I discover all that??? I spent the last 20 years trying to find a particular person in my fork. And ended up crossing paths with others from other forks during my search. And I was shocked to find the same names on the same faces at the same ages and nobody had any idea who anybody in the other forks was.
So yeah, I’m not sold on using face recognition. It would take the government less than an hour to find my identical twin. That person will have my birth name and be near my age.
For the curious... yes... one of my daughters carries the same name that was found in another fork in the right spot. This came to my attention after the fact.
My 2nd daughter was named very carefully and went through a much more thorough and deliberate name decision. Because the name she was to be given was learned to be the younger sibling of the other name daughters name in the other fork, and had died within a year of birth. So her name was changed to avoid the trinity effect that happened in the other fork. But perhaps it wasn’t avoided, because we had a miscarriage as well. So in essence 1 of the 3 still died. And in the same “birth sequence” if the miscarriage had been born.
So yeah... freaky genetic parallels. But anyway, yeah It seems like I recall discussions of Face ID being tricked with similarities.
With my family’s genetics, it’s definitely going to be easy to get in.
