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New Videos Emerge Showing Attempts to Trick Face ID

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MacRumors reports today on two new videos that have emerged online that appear to show the new iPhone X Face ID system being fooled into unlocking the phone. The first video shows how a 10-year-old boy, Ammar Malik, is able to unlock his mother, Sana’s, iPhone X by looking at it, and was even able to successfully unlock his father’s iPhone X on just one occasion.

When Wired’s Andy Greenberg suggested that Sana re-registered her face, her son was then unable to unlock it via Face ID. However, when she re-registered her face on the phone again later in the evening in the same lighting conditions as when she first registered it, Ammar was once again able to unlock the phone using Face ID.

The family never entered the iPhone X passcode after unlocking failures, which meant that Face ID was not able to take another capture in order to augment its current Face ID data with newly calculated data, which is a process described in Apple’s Face ID security paper.

The second video shows a security firm in Vietnam going to extraordinary lengths to try and spoof Face ID using a mask, despite the fact that Apple has stated that this is not possible. The mask was made using 3D printing with makeup and 2D images, and cost around $150 to make. There are many unanswered questions about the authenticity of the video, and, as MacRumors says, the chances of someone going to these efforts to create an image of an average person’s face to unlock their phone are unlikely.

Apple has not made any official statement on the latest videos other than to refer to its Face ID security paper.

Source: 10-Year-Old Unlocks Face ID on His Mother's iPhone X as Questionable Mask Spoofing Surfaces
 

 
I'm sure we'll see a software update to correct this. I can't imagine Apple is to happy with videos like floating around.
 
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