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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by Cthulhu_ on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:17AM (#15246780)
Second, facial features are more unique than fingerprints - according to apple's own presentation, there's a 1 in 10.000 chance that prints from different people would unlock it. With face ID, this becomes 1 in 50.000 (iirc).
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by kbutler on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:45AM (#15246937)
Unless you have a twin.

Twins have different fingerprints.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by kevincennis on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:35AM (#15246882)
I believe they said 1:50,000 and 1:1,000,000.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by yinghang on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:46AM (#15246941)
https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/1ggc2q/why_do_euro...
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by jmreid on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:13AM (#15247600)
He's not correcting the use of a period, he's correcting the numbers themselves. 1:50,000 and 1:1,000,000 vs 1:10,000 and 1:50,000
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