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Apple’s new iPhone X hit stores November 3rd. Its most talked about feature is Face ID . Instead of touching your finger to the phone to unlock it, just look at the camera and it recognizes your face. Face ID is more accurate than the old Touch ID. Does that mean it’s more secure? Taproot Security studied technical specs on Face ID and found potential vulnerabilities. I enumerated these in a private letter to Apple one month ago, along with ten recommendations to impro

As you probably know, a trove of documents about classified CIA hacking tools code-named “Vault 7” was recently published by WikiLeaks....

Many think the Apple versus FBI saga ended when a third party offered to crack Syed Farook’s iPhone and the FBI withdrew its formal...