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Nitpicking the cost of the labor to build this mask misses the point of the article: face id is much less secure than Apple claims.

• delinka 9y ago
  What claims have they made? That it can’t be fooled by masks? No. That one in a million other faces can open your phone. That’s still fewer people than could open you phone with Touch ID. At no time that I’m aware have Apple claimed resilience against masks or gelatin fingers.
  • Tepix 9y ago
    Yes, Apple claimed that it can't be fooled by masks. The article even has the picture from the slide of the presentation. Did you read it?
• baxtr 9y ago
  Cost do matter for their claim, because given an indefinite budget every security measure can be broken.
  • slantyyz 9y ago
    On the surface though, these guys look to be a small company in Vietnam, so I doubt they have an infinite budget, much less a "large" budget for this demonstration.
• valuearb 9y ago
  They've shown an "attack vector" that's virtually impossible to reproduce. Someone has to be able to get detailed 3D renders of your face before also stealing your phone. Then they have to get a team of artists to hand craft your nose, hand craft human like skin, 3D print a mask, and a makeup artist to make it all look realistic. In the end, they've shown is FaceID is just as secure as Apple claimed. Apple never claimed impervious to any attacks, they claimed it would work well an quickly, and be more resistant to attack than TouchID. Requiring a Mission Impossible level team to create a mask that duplicates your face is not a level of attack most customers are concerned with. TouchID can be defeated simply by stealing the device, lifting the owners fingerprints from said device, and 3d printing duplicate prints to use. FaceID is far more secure than that.