Apple's Face ID Can Be Fooled by Kids, Twins

I do not know if many parents are planning to buy Apple's 1000X Apple for their pre-teen laying, but if they do, they can trust young people to leave an access code instead of Face ID.

While Apple has been advocating face ID as the safest method of blocking the cell phone screen, so the company's technology does not work so well when you're under 13, or if you have a twin brother or bad (or benign), that sounds very much like you,

In these cases, it would be better to trust the password that worked well, though it might be embarrassing to write it.

Earlier this week, Apple released the face recognition security guide on its website, and the document largely meets your expectations. The Face-ID is super safe, according to Apple's security gurus. The assumed false-positive error rate that allows someone else to enter the phone is approximately 1 in 1,000,000 versus 1 in 50,000 for Touch ID based on the fingerprint. ,

The iPhone X will always ask you to use a password when the phone is turned on for a while or not reset and creating a password required to configure face recognition first. The team worked hard to ensure that Face ID works across a variety of ethnicities, with concerns about facial recognition in favor of prevailing European colors and features.

The only downside to Face ID, the document is that identical twins, siblings, and children under 13 can produce more false positive results than usual, making facial identity-less useful to these people

The twins and siblings alike tend to have structures very similar to face that could deceive even Apple's sophisticated cameras, while children under 13 have facial features that are less pronounced because their looks are still evolving.

However, this is not necessarily a big security risk.

"If you are worried, we recommend that you authenticate yourself with a password," writes the Apple security team. It's a pretty simple solution.

In fact, the use of an access code can generally be safer. A 1 in 1,000,000 failure rate is extremely low but think about the number of iPhone users who sign up with the Face ID several times a day. Chances can be against you.

In addition, Face ID can occupy a very dark area in terms of unlocking the law enforcement of your phone. Even if you have nothing to hide from the police allowing your phone to enter without your explicit consent, as could happen if an agent asks you to open your eyes and face it, that's probably not what you want to do.


The good news is that Face ID's potential mistakes in the real world will not be too big. Children under 13 are unlikely to have an iPhone X, and if they do, it will be easy to use the required access code. The twins and other siblings who (probably) do not seem to want to sabotage iPhones others, and if the blood, an access code is always an option for them.

There is no real lesson here except that biometric security, which is never quite accurate, always has disadvantages compared to the normal passwords that are correct or false. The advantage is that biometrics is easier to use and many people who oppose keep access codes from blocking their screens.