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Re:Face ID is replacing Touch ID on the new iPhone X by bambax on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:49PM (#15231554)
What about twins? Does touch ID even work with twins?
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Re:Face ID is replacing Touch ID on the new iPhone X by AceJohnny2 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:52PM (#15231611)
No. They even brought up Spock and Evil Goatee Spock to mention that twins defeat it.

(I say "defeat". Schiller just said the chances of a false positive were higher with twins than the 1/1,000,000 base rate [compared with his claim of 1/50,000 for TouchID])

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Re:Face ID is replacing Touch ID on the new iPhone X by saurik on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:52PM (#15231616)
This was explicitly brought up by the presenter (though through the premise of an "evil twin" and a photo of Spock from Mirror, Mirror) and they said you should consider a password.
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Re:Face ID is replacing Touch ID on the new iPhone X by return0 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:56PM (#15231698)
that sounds like a lot of inconvenience
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Re:Face ID is replacing Touch ID on the new iPhone X by TCM on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:00PM (#15231771)
I am a twin and me and my brother managed to fool windows hello. I plan on going to an Apple Store with my brother to see if FaceID can't be fooled.
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Re:Face ID is replacing Touch ID on the new iPhone X by amag on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:05PM (#15231843)
Oh, this is very interesting! Please keep us posted!
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Re:Face ID is replacing Touch ID on the new iPhone X by cynix on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @08:14PM (#15234297)
Twins shouldn't be a problem. Even the ghetto facial recognition implementation in the AliPay app (a Chinese PayPal clone) can tell twins apart. Surely Apple can do an even better job.
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