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by lostlogin 3636 days ago
Having got sick of damp fingers blocking Touch ID I added my nose as one of the options. No more lockout during dish washing.
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Are noses sufficiently different from one another that someone else's nose won't be able to unlock your device?
Can a US court order compel you to provide your nose print?
Someone needs to be the first to make the news for refusing to do so!
This works? Genius!
I did this so I can unlock my phone with my snowboarding gloves on. I can unlock with the nose and then press the texting app button with my nose to read tests.
Do we know if nose-prints are particularly unique? Or even unique in the context of how fingerprints are typically analysed?
I did this and then tested it against several friends and family. I could only unlock the phone about 75% of the time, but I never got a false positive after about 20 different tries over the next week or two (cleaning the sensor regularly, of course)
I'd guess probably not, but as a 'password' it might be suitably random if you only get 5 attempts.