Posted on 12/18/2017 6:55:37 AM PST by blam
A woman in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing has been offered a second refund after faulty facial recognition software on two iPhone X handsets allowed her colleague to unlock them.
As The South China Morning Post reports, the woman, identified only by her surname Yan, told the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation that despite activating and configuring each phone’s facial recognition software, her work colleague was able to get into both devices on every attempt.
Yan said the first time it happened, she called the Apple hotline, but the staff would not believe her.
Shen then went with her colleague to the nearest Apple store, where her colleague used facial recognition on the phone to demonstrate the issue to staff, according to the report.
The store said the camera might be faulty and gave Yan a refund. But the new iPhone X that she bought also had the same problem, prompting the shop to offer another refund, the report said.
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They all look the same.
I mean the iPhoneX!
They all look the same.
I thought it was named after Malcolm X, or maybe Dorothy X from Detroit.
ROFL! The software that scans the 3D facial contour map must be looking for big noses and round eyes. The responsible programmer needs a consciousness-raising!
Given all the attention China has been paying to biotech, are these crones clones?
They all look alike!..............
L O L O L
Ping!......................
Or Rita X...................
They all look the same.
I hear that alot ,LOL
Can’t one simply not use the facial recognition feature?
I hope so!
It’s true! They all look alike! Siri said so.
Yes, because everything is racist.
Next question.
Yes, one can use a numeric (or longer alphanumeric) code for entry.
Or she can just be aware that one other particular person can unlock her phone.
There isn’t a fingerprint sensor to fall back on.
This, however, is akin to discovering that someone else happens to have the same numeric code. With 4 or 6 digits, vs tens of millions of users, odds are a couple people who know each other are likely to use the same code.
Key point here is it’s ONE particular pair of people who happen to look similar enough (to the device) that one can open the other’s phone. This is NOT a case of total security failure (as some will construe it). And this is a biometric convenience, not full-on data security; it’s akin to having a locked front door knowing full well a willful & motivated thief could easily break a window and climb in your house - to wit if you want serious security, use a passphrase > 6 characters, not merely face or finger biometrics.
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I suspect FUD also...these two women don’t look (to my eye) anything alike.
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