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A new video has surfaced on the internet that shows the Galaxy S8’s facial recognition system being fooled by a photo and unlocking the device. Samsung highlighted the facial recognition features of the Galaxy S8 at its launch event, but it did stop short of praising it for its security.
While the Galaxy S8 did not unlock itself at the first try, its facial recognition system was fooled after a few tries.
This is not the first time that we are seeing the facial recognition feature on a phone being fooled by using a photo. And there is a reason as to why the Galaxy S8 comes with an iris scanner, which is more secure than a simple facial unlock.
In addition, Samsung’s executives themselves admitted at the launch event of the device that the facial unlock mechanism is not as secure as other biometric authentication systems present on the handset like iris scanning and fingerprint unlock. This perhaps also explains as to why facial unlock cannot be used as a form of verification for Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass on the device. Samsung knew facial unlock is not as secure and ensured that it cannot be used for accessing sensitive data.
