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by foobazgt 234 days ago
At first I read this as "Apple doesn't implement Touch ID, because they found it to be insecure", which really confused me. Was that the intent?

On second reading, I'm thinking this might mean, "since Apple only implements Face ID, biometrics on Apple devices is less secure", which makes more sense (to me).

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Yeah, the latter. All kinds of reports of siblings (including fraternal twins and non-twins) being able to unlock each others phones.

https://duckduckgo.com/?origin=funnel_home_google&t=h_&q=fac...

Fingerprints are much more non-deterministic and therefore more secure.

Aren't fingerprints obsolete as biometrics? Last I remembered fingerprints can be lifted if high resolution pictures. I.e. any picture where your thumb is visible.