The news seems totally true and is that a mother records with her 10-year-old son a sequence that may seem surreal about how they circumvent the security of the new Face ID. The security of the new iPhone X is totally compromised in this video that we will see after the jump and it is necessary to say first of all mother and son are quite similar, but to the point of confusing the iPhone?
There is no doubt that the Apple system implemented in this iPhone X is safe, but this time I personally believe that they are so similar that it is possible to deceive the security system as we have seen it among some twin brothers in the past or even with the mask created based on a profile already registered and made with skin and 3D printers. In any case, Can this be considered a new case of Face ID failure?
Here we leave the video in which it is shown with a double camera and what appears to be a video followed without cuts or editing, as the iPhone X is fooled by the child:
As I said at the beginning, the resemblance is reasonable and we can say that she is the mother of this child, and obviously the resemblance is so much that it manages to completely fool the sensor by unlocking the iPhone X when the child has it in hand. We all know that it is impossible to register two faces on iPhone X, so obviously in this case of "reasonable resemblances" the iPhone does not pass the security test. Some cases are appearing on the net in which brothers who do not look too alike have managed to fool the security of the iPhone, but the quality of the videos and even a possible editing of them leave us unconvinced about their veracity. In this case there is no doubt, the child manages to unlock the iPhone X.
It is said (I have not tested it) that when configuring FaceID, as it is done from two different scans, you can somehow "fool yourself" by putting two different people in each of the scans, first one and then another, making it possible for two similar people to unlock the same terminal. If they have done that, it really would not be a failure of FaceID, but they have already configured it in a way that recognizes two people as if they were the same. But that's something that only the owners of that iPhone X can know ...
Something like this also happened with TouchID, when when configuring it you could put different fingers for the same scan, since the terminal asked you to put your finger several times but you could trick it by putting another. That made it possible to bypass the total finger limit that could unlock the terminal, although I understand that the reliability would also be worse.
Good David, what you say is not possible since it gives an error if the face is different in each of the scanners.
What can be true is that Face ID learns on the fly thanks to the Bionic chip and if the two people are quite similar as is the case with this mother and her son, you could confuse the system.
This is done when the Face ID does not unlock the iPhone because it is not the registered person, the numeric code to unlock appears. If we enter the code, the sensor warns that you are the registered person and therefore these features are saved for subsequent unlocks. In the end, if you repeat this process several times, it is possible that if the people are very similar (as is the case in the video), you will deceive the sensor.
This is not said in the video either, in this one you only see how the child unlocks the iPhone without problem.
Regards!