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you can change your pin. you can't change your face.
by jasonmaydie 9y ago
you can change your pin. you can't change your face.
- overcast 9y agoThat's not true at all.
- aethertron 9y agoSo you can change your face, and you can't change your PIN?
- overcast 9y agoSurprisingly true with most end users I deal with.
- kibwen 9y agoWhich is why it's nice that none of the biometric auths can be used without also having a PIN for backup auth. And also why it's nice that you can disable biometrics entirely.
- jasonmaydie 9y agoThe comment was aimed at the Snowden example. If Snowden thought his pin was compromised he could always change his pin, but once his face is compromised what does he doe?
- lukeholder 9y agonot use faceID?
- fisherjeff 9y agoThis entire article was explicitly written to address this line of thinking, and IMO does so very well.
- JoBrad 9y agoThat breaks both ways: only a fairly advanced attacker could "change their face" to access your phone. So Face ID still covers the 99% of cases Troy talks about. For the rest, I'm not sure a PIN works, either, so they'd have to use a password.
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