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valuearb on Sept 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interview: Apple’s Craig Federighi about Face ID

How? They can't access the secure enclave. If they make a fake 3D mask out of the map identical to your face, it's not going to work either, they've tested that.

This isn't Samsung dumping underbaked technologies on the world. Apple actually puts some thought into these things.

cbhl on Sept 15, 2017 [–]

Sure, we know that. Consumers don't know that. Hence the marketing line about developers not having access to the "raw Face ID sensor data".

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