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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by Cullinet on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:56PM (#24781497)
FaceID gave access to my phone to a malicious house guest of a guest (boyfriend of sister who was unreasonably convinced of my disapproving of him, self fulfilling in this case ) who unlocked my phone using my face while I slept and even managed to authorize expenditure on my wallet.
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by henryaj on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:04PM (#24781587)
Odd, as this shouldn't be possible - Face ID checks your eyes are open and are looking at the screen before it unlocks (unless you disable Attention-Aware Unlock in Accessibility settings).
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by newen on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:34AM (#24784968)
Machine learning is never 100%. False positives are always possible.
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by supernova87a on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:13AM (#24786871)
Presumably he would have pressed your finger on the TouchID too, or just cut your thumb off if he's willing to go the next step. Hard to hold the phone manufacturer at fault for a case like this, right?
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by chorsestudios on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:38AM (#24789077)
Do you have Require Attention for FaceID enabled in the settings panel?
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