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I'm so underwhelm right now... They are giving so much marketing to wireless charging, seriously?? that's $11 on amazon years ago!! FaceID, hasn't Microsoft and

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• Crespyl 9y ago
  The "picture of person" attack works for basic version of facial recognition, like the one Google or Samsung have been doing for ages (though I think both now allow you to require a moving face with blinking or whatever). What Apple (and Microsoft via Hello) are doing is a little more interesting, and they're actually capturing a 3D model of the face, using an IR projector that works a bit like the Kinect did. They feed that model into an on-device hardware accelerated machine learning engine to do the recognition, and the results are substantially more robust than the traditional 2D versions. Personally, I'm still not entirely sold on using any kind of biometrics to unlock my device, but this does represent an interesting improvement. I'm more interested in just having that machine learning hardware readily available and built into every new phone, it will be really interesting to see what devs do with it.
  • theshrike79 9y ago
    Biometrics is always better than no passcode, using just a finger or 3D face model is a major hurdle for your basic phone thief. If your threat model includes state actors, then you shouldn't be using any of these. Also start to toughen up your body for rubber hose crypto :)
  • astrange 9y ago
    The recent attack videos on Samsung phones are apparently because the store demo script doesn't do face matching, and actually accepts any face at all.