Default PINCODE/password — Alive or Dead?
Change the Face ID Settings to Prevent Anyone Access to Your iPhone
https://www.cysecurity.news/2023/02/change-face-id-settings-to-prevent.html
Yes, we need to be particular about the setting.
1. When the default PINCODE/password is turned off, we would not have a rescue measure when we are falsely rejected by FACE ID. The situation would be described as ‘Loss of Availability’ — we have to abandon the login into the device.
2. When the default PINCODE/password stays turned on, we would not have to suffer the loss of availability. However, the overall security would be inevitably lower than PINCODE/password-only login as visually explained in this short video — “Biometrics in Cyber Space — “below-one” factor authentication” https://youtu.be/wuhB5vxKYlg
More information on biometrics is offered here — “Biometrics Unravelled | password-dependent password-killer”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biometrics-unravelled-password-dependent-hitoshi-kokumai/
Website — https://www.mnemonicidentitysolutions.com/
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