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Hackers have fooled the iPhone X’s Face ID security system with a 3D-printed mask.
Vietnamese security firm Bkav posted a video online showing the new Apple smartphone unlocking when presented with a fake face.
The team created the mask by printing a 3D facial frame, adding on a silicone nose and printed images of the owner’s eyes and mouth.
The mask is said to have cost just £115 to make.
Bkav hasn’t released full details of how its mask works, with other tests involving life-like mask renderings proving unsuccessful.
“It is quite hard to make the "correct" mask without certain knowledge of security,” a Bkav blog post states. “We were able to trick Apple's AI, because we understood how their AI worked and how to bypass it.”
The post adds: “Potential targets [for Face ID hacking attempts] shall not be regular users, but billionaires, leaders of major corporations, nation leaders and agents like FBI need to understand the Face ID's issue.”
In its keynote presentation introducing the iPhone X, Apple claimed that it had used masks in testing Face ID to make sure they could not fool the security software.
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