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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by jowiar on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:17AM (#15246784)
TouchID also is problematic if you're wearing gloves, which people who don't live in San Francisco do during non-trivial portions of the year.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by kbutler on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:48AM (#15246952)
Not sure if this applies to Apple's implementation, but my phone fingerprint recognition fails if my finger is wet (sweat, washing hands).

I haven't tried training it with a wet fingerprint.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by ceejayoz on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:18AM (#15247655)
This definitely applies to Apple's implementation. It's infuriatingly sensitive to even damp fingers, in my experience.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by madeofpalk on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:40AM (#15247325)
> people who don't live in San Francisco

I find this humorous because for me, an Australian, San Francisco is quite cold and I wore gloves there.

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by cptskippy on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:57AM (#15247461)
> TouchID also is problematic if you're wearing gloves

And the touchscreen?

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by robin_reala on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:08AM (#15247547)
There are plenty of gloves designed to work with capacitative touchscreens (small wire mesh in the fingertips) but none that let you use TouchID.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by istolemomsthumb on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:56AM (#15247007)
As long as you can easily unbutton your shirt:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2430654/iPhon...

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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by vlozko on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:44AM (#15246925)
Also fails constantly when you're doing certain physical tasks. It becomes nearly useless after a few hours of doing landscaping work.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by swah on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:10AM (#15247570)
Curious how much face one needs to show during winter for FaceID to work.
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Re:Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security by liberte82 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @11:20AM (#15248907)
Well, you can always still use your PIN, same as you can with Face ID.
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