Beating the iPhone X Face ID Is Hard. We Know, Because We Tried

Beating the iPhone X Face ID Is Hard. We Know, Because We Tried

When Apple announced the iPhone X last month—its all-screen, home-button-less, unlock-with-a-look flagship—it placed an enormous bet on facial recognition as the future of authentication. For hackers around the world, Face ID practically painted a glowing target on the phone: How hard could it be, after all, to reproduce a person’s face—which sits out in public …