Face ID beaten by mask

The 1st point is, everything went much more easily than you expect. You can try it out with your own iPhone X, the phone shall recognize you even when you cover a half of your face. It means the recognition mechanism is not as strict as you think, Apple seems to rely too much on Face ID's AI. We just need a half face to create the mask. It was even simpler than we ourselves had thought.

Interesting. I expected this to be some quite obscure technique.

Re: Face ID beaten by mask

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Post by baxtr » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 11:03 AM UTC

> A: We used a popular 3D printer. Nose was made by a handmade artist. We use 2D printing for other parts (similar to how we tricked Face Recognition 9 years ago). The skin was also hand-made to trick Apple's AI.

> Q: What's the approximate cost of the mask?

> A: ~ 150 USD

Taken together, the second answer cannot be true. Only if the cost stated is related to material cost only, which is is only one input factor to assess the total cost of this approach

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Post by syshum » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 11:03 AM UTC

Biometrics are usernames not passwords. Biometrics should never be used on the sole authentication method they should only be used in conjunction with something else.

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Post by thoughtsimple » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 11:03 AM UTC

Nevermind. Should have read the article. I thought it was the same as the one I saw over the weekend.

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Post by vultour » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 11:04 AM UTC

Wonder if this would work have Apple not relaxed their FaceID sensor requirements to ship the phones more quickly.

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Post by sambeau » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 11:05 AM UTC

As a consumer this doesn't worry me as to be able to crack my phone it looks like they would already have to have access to my face to make the mask (and an expert sculpture to make a nose).

If they could demonstrate it working from a 3D printed mask taken from a surreptitious scan at distance in the outdoors then I think we'd have reason to be worried.

For spies, spooks, government agents etc. I suspect that Face ID would always be a no-no as it is much harder to control the ability of others to eavesdrop.

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Post by sambeau » Mon, Nov 13, 2017, 11:07 AM UTC

vultour wrote: post #8

Wonder if this would work have Apple not relaxed their FaceID sensor requirements to ship the phones more quickly.

While I recall this rumour I thought it was widely discredited. Was there any actual evidence of this?