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Re:Any phone but iPhone X, according to this Sprint salesman by DrScump on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:40PM (#15956157) 

  I’ve used it heavily with 99% success.
Not to defend Cnet, but: isn't the important statistic the false positive rate?

In other words, "recognizing me 99% of the time" isn't nearly as important as "recognizing when it's not me 100% of the time"... and there are already known spoofs out in the wild where it won't successfully recognized unauthorized access attempts.

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Re:Any phone but iPhone X, according to this Sprint salesman by dragonwriter on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:45PM (#15956184)
False negative is important to usability, false positive is important to security; both are important.
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