iPhone X First Look: Let's Talk About Face ID
- Alex Cranz for Gizmodo October 31st, 2017
- Source: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-x-first-look-lets-talk-about-that-whole-face-id-1819989200
The iPhone X’s Face ID camera module has received a bit more press than Apple might’ve intended. … Touch ID is definitely neat, but has always been fairly susceptible to spoof attempts. Nasir Memon, chair of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering explained to Gizmodo earlier this year that Touch ID actually takes multiple tiny photos of a person’s fingerprints. “What it’s doing is capturing small, small squares — little partial fingerprints,” he said.