When biometrics can be outsmarted this way, we need to talk

It’s one of the sad facts of mobile authentication that the industry tends to initially support the least effective security options. Hence, phones initially supported authentication based on fingerprints (which can be impacted by prescriptions, cleaning products, hand injuries, and dozens of other factors) and then moved on to facial recognition. In theory, facial recognition is supposed to be more accurate. Mathematically, that’s fair, as it is examining far more data points