Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security

Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by koliber on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:33AM (#15246557)

There is an opposite use case which will make me consider getting an iPhone X for a long time.

Every so often, I leave my phone at home and I need my wife to get some info from it. Or my phone runs out of batteries and my wife's phone is there, and I use to to make a phone call.

With Face ID, these possibilities go away.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by elkabong on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:35AM (#15246576)

Your wife could also know your passcode and vice versa, if this is such a necessity

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by raesene6 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:35AM (#15246569)

If it's implemented in the same way as TouchID, you can always fall back to PIN.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by koliber on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:29AM (#15255081)

Oh. Thank you for pointing this out. It was not clear to me that this is the case. From a quick look at their initial marketing material, it seemed like the way to unlock it was to wave it in front of your face.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by adolfoabegg on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:37AM (#15246583)

If the face isn't recognized then you get "Enter your PIN" screen, right? Sorry, didn't read the article so this comment might be out of context.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by have_faith on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:36AM (#15246577)

With TouchID you could register multiple fingers, don't see why you couldn't register multiple faces.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by peteretep on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:45AM (#15246628)

I'd read somewhere that specifically it's just one face

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by nikbackm on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:52AM (#15246666)

Makes sense, most people only have one face.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by booleandilemma on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:06AM (#15247540)

I've met some two-faced people before.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by Angostura on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:58AM (#15246704)

I presume you can enroll multiple faces, no?

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by uptown on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:07AM (#15246746)

FaceID currently only supports one face.

Source: https://twitter.com/reneritchie/status/907724254652784640

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by 2close4comfort on Thursday September 14, 2017 @03:24PM (#15251632)

But waht if my face is not supported?

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