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iPhone X Face ID fooled twice in one month, this time with $200 3D mask

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Ever since the iPhone X launched on November 3, people have been hard at work trying to fool Face ID. With the introduction of the edge-to-edge display on the iPhone X, Apple had to get rid of the home button and as a result TouchID. In its place we have Face ID, which allows the tenth anniversary iPhone to be unlocked with just a glance of someone's face. iPhone X's biometric facial recognition feature has so far been fooled by a  ten-year old , twins and a mask. The most notable attempt to crack Face ID came by Vietnamese security company Bkav which tricked the security feature using a mask in mid-November. However, at that time, questions were raised whether the company had turned the Face ID's "Required Attention" feature on or not. The video also did not showcase the original Face ID enrollment process - Bkav could have easily registered the mask as the original user. Now, in order to hammer home their point, Bkav has uploaded another video in