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Apple FaceID Tricked With $150 Mask

  • November 13, 2017
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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13th November, 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu
 


 
Security researchers have broken Apple's FaceID security system using a mask they said takes around a few days to make and costs only $150.
 
The authors of this research are experts from Vietnamese cyber-security firm Bkav, the same company that back in 2009 bypassed some of the first facial recognition systems deployed with laptops from ASUS, Lenovo, Toshiba, and others, using nothing more than a simple photo.
 
While Samsung failed to secure the iris and facial recognition systems it deployed with Galaxy S8 phones released earlier this year against simple "photo attacks," Apple did a much better job.
 
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Baldrick
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  • November 13, 2017
Well, Jasper...we have been airing our doubts re. this technology for a while, n'est-ce pas? And it looks like this FaceId functionality is not really ready for prime time.
 
I hope that they get it to work but to be honest I am not sure that they ever will fully...but we will see.
 
Interesting article though!
 
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@ wrote:
Well, Jasper...we have been airing our doubts re. this technology for a while, n'est-ce pas? And it looks like this FaceId functionality is not really ready for prime time.
 
I hope that they get it to work but to be honest I am not sure that they ever will fully...but we will see.
 
Interesting article though!
 
Regards, Baldrick
Well whatever new security things the devs come up with it will always become a new challenge and with both sides of the game about as clever as each other the new things will never last long so all they can is just keep trying to improve them.

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  • November 13, 2017
Back to the drawing board!!!!!!!!!!!!!!