Security when protecting access to our device is one of the most important aspects that we must take into account when buying a new terminal. Since Apple launched the iPhone X with Face ID, many manufacturers have launched a similar version that allows you to unlock your terminals with your face.
But most of these terminals, if not 100%, do not use, by any means, the same technology that we can find in the iPhone X, hence its notch is so pronounced if we compare it with the rest of manufacturers who have implemented it without justification. The latest manufacturer to prove its facial recognition system useless is OnePlus.
I printed my face to unlock my OnePlus 6 for the lulz… it worked ¯_ (ツ) _ / ¯ pic.twitter.com/rAVMq8JKBr
- rik (@rikvduijn) May 29, 2018
As we can see in the image above, a user has managed to unlock a OnePlus 6, through the facial recognition system, the OnePlus 6 of a friend making use of a photograph of him cropped and placing it in front of the device. To be more serious, this user has also tried to unlock the OnePlus 6 with a photograph of his friend in black and white and the facial recognition system has allowed access to the terminal.
It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, it has also happened to Samsung, that an Android terminal boasts of this function, a function intended to sell phones, because what is said to protect the phone really does not.
Manufacturers know perfectly well that his facial recognition system is fallibleHence, each and every one of them continues to include the option of the fingerprint sensor as an optional device protection system, although most users do not use it, since it is much more comfortable to carry the smartphone to the face than to look for it. where the fingerprint sensor is located on the back of the device.