Forensics company advises cops not to look at seized Iphones, to avoid facial-recognition lockouts
A leaked police-training presentation from digital forensics company Elcomsoft (a company that made history due to its early run-in with the DMCA) advises officers not to look at Iphones seized from suspects in order to avoid tripping the phones' facial recognition systems -- if Iphones sense too many unlock attempts with faces other than those registered as trusted, they fall back to requiring additional unlock measures like passcodes or fingerprints.
iPhone X: dont look at the screen, or else The same thing will occur as happened on Apples event, the slide, from forensics company Elcomsoft, reads. Motherboard obtained the presentation from a non-Elcomsoft source, and the company subsequently confirmed its veracity.
This is quite simple. Passcode is required after five unsuccessful attempts to match a face, Vladimir Katalov, CEO of Elcomsoft, told Motherboard in an online chat, pointing to Apples own documentation on Face ID. So by looking into suspects phone, [the] investigator immediately lose one of [the] attempts.
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