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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I hear these stories and yeah, they're humorous.
But honestly, the point of facial recognition or fingerprints is mostly to prevent someone who stole your phone or even picked it up off of a table somewhere from accessing your stuff. If some nefarious person manages to plan ahead enough to leave out some gummy bears knowing that I will a) pick one up and b) decide I don't need it and c) leave the now fingerprinted gummy bear and my forgotten phone unattended on a table... Well, that person deserves access to my phone. That's some James Bond stuff there.
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Fortunately for me, I don't eat gummy bears, so I guess I'm safe.
If you really, really want to break into most smartphones, there is software that will do that. Expensive as all get out software, but it exists. Like most security measures, fingerprint and face recognition is designed to deter casual thieves.