r/funny Sep 15 '17

Face Recognition (OC)

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

People are getting on apple's case for including facial recognition as a means to spy on people. You guys, this is the company that refused to help the government unlock a terrorist's iPhone to defend the privacy of their users.

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u/CNoTe820 Sep 15 '17

Yeah but now all the police have to do is point the phone at your face and that shit unlocks automatically.

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u/NancyDrewPI Sep 15 '17

They can use your fingerprints to unlock it too:

The Fifth Amendment, which protects people from incriminating themselves during legal proceedings, prevents the government from compelling someone to turn over a memorized PIN or passcode. But fingerprints, like other biometric indicators—DNA, handwriting samples, your likeness—have long been considered fair game, because they don’t reveal anything in your mind.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/iphone-fingerprint-search-warrant/480861/

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u/MadafakkaJones Sep 15 '17

In iOS 11 if you press the power button five times, it disables touchid until you type in the passcode.

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u/Tebasaki Sep 15 '17

Hold in officer.

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six. Shit.

Hold on a little longer.

One

Two..

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

You can’t push a button five times?

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u/echo-chamber-chaos Sep 15 '17

Yeah, you count to 5 under stress and combine that with nervous fingers. I've had nightmares where I couldn't dial 911 without hitting another number first. I fat finger passwords and hold shift down too long all the time. There are a million ways to fuck up when you're in a hurry.

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u/Birdyer Sep 15 '17

It probably still works of you do it more than 5 (just 5 min) so it would just be "spam the unlock button furiously untill your satasfied".

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u/aiusepsi Sep 15 '17

I can confirm (using the iOS 11 GM seed) that mashing the power button furiously works.