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Thousand-dollar iPhone X's Face ID wrecked by '$150 3D-printed mask'

gnasher729 Silver badge

Re: When will they learn (@ AC)

Come on, this doesn’t help a thief.

You’d have to steal a phone and get a 3D mask of the owner. Hard to do without kidnapping which means serious jail time.

Then you can unlock the phone once. For at most four days. Then you need the passcode and you have no way to get it. Without passcode you can’t change the Apple ID and without that you can’t reset the phone. It is forever connected with the Apple ID and can be tracked by the user.

And a phone in a faraday cage can’t make phone calls, can’t get on the internet, and is quite useless.

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