iPhone X. Quiet. Just look and don't touch! Facial recognition only

MELBOURNE, Australia - Sept. 14, 2017 - PRLog -- The iPhone X - Risk or revolution?

Simon Smith of eVestigator, Cyber Security Expert in Australia is sitting on the fence a little. In discussion with colleagues, not less than 48 hours ago he saw the release of the iPhone X. "So we are now excluding the home button. It seems less is more. First we lost the 3.5" audio jack, now we have lost fingerprint biometrics - and we are given the pleasure of using our eyes to interact with our phone", he said in curiosity.

"I can bet that there is going to be about 50,000 tech guys and gals trying to bust the technology and honestly in using common sense and logic, I do not think it is as hard as Apple portrays", Mr. Smith said.

However he explained to the group how he was recently surprised when he rang the Tax Office recently, and expressed his amazement with their voice recognition identification technology.."As you all know, they use voice recognition to identify people and I was shocked to see how accurate it was. By saying, 'In Australia, my voice identifies me', is enough to pinpoint a single individual Australian 99,90% of the time", Mr. Smith said.

He went on to explain how he quizzed the lady on the phone. "I asked the lady how often does it error and she said she has never seen it pick the wrong person. The worst she has seen is that it has maybe once or twice a day come up with 'undetectable' and it is usually because people don't try and talk", he said.

Having worked a lot with the streaming RIFF protocol and VOIP in early Linux systems Mr. Smith was very familiar with the raw codecs used over both PSTN and ISDN, "I know how ULAW, GLAW and GSM 6.1 works, and I think this is good for a once off yes or no match but it could never be mainstream verbatim English", he said. "I do get how the biometrics of voice can be mathematically averaged out to the person's voice pattern but it would have to be done phonetically", he mentioned so if it can be done for voice then technically it can be done for a face he thought.

"However, I am not so convinced with using facial recognition as any SSO or SFA generally, but I have however heard some good things about the technology with security in airports, and other industries. I do believe Apple have taken a big risk and jump to claim that it doesn't matter whether you're wearing glasses or not because every person and their pet will be trying to 'hack' this feature", Simon stated.

"Logic and common sense tells me to look at patterns, pixels and algorithms. The amount of variables are in the trillions, they differ by the light, hue, heat, your smile, your mood, and so many other factors. I will absolutely bet that simulating a face on a Jailbroken device will be easily spoofed. I am also reasonably convinced that a good 3D moving replica image of a person could trick the system", he said.

"According to Apple, this is a 'glorious innovation' and a 'step toward ever-increasing convenience, high technology making daily life easier'. It is noted that this is the very first time Apple have offered facial-recognition security features", the group observed.

In recent media, Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 boast in their debut, "Face recognition is less secure than pattern, PIN, or password". It has been reported by some big players that its failure rate is just 0.001 percent however nobody in the group agrees with that.

"If it does stand up to its expectations and is the ultimate, it will only lead to potential decapitations and that cannot be a good thing", Mr. Smith jokingly said.

Simon Smith, Australian Cyber Security Expert
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