The Thieves Will Spend Some Time Watching Their Potential Victims...


A cautionary from the Big Apple... yeah, but which big Apple?

Subsequent to my recent post on muggers using Face ID in London to clean out your bank account, it appears in the US the modus operandi is to film regulars at bars on their phones, so as to get the passcode and steal the phone.

After that, they clear you out of your Apple account prior to clearing out your savings.

"And that's why the entirety of Apple's security cannot hinge on those six digits... "

... says the lady in the video:


Filming people choosing from a gallery of faces would of course be altogether harder ~ especially were the faces and underlying key-pad to be refreshed and reshuffled every time the phone was opened.

Persuading manufacturers who are among the richest companies in the world to dwell on the problem, however, won't happen overnight.

More groundswell then, and less dwell?

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