Is Windows Hello from Microsoft or Face ID from Apple more secure? They try to compare them and these are the results

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The arrival of the iPhone X has been quite an event. For the price, the highest in the entire history of the iPhone range and for its design, which breaks with everything Apple has contributed to date. And in this sense, the adoption of an OLED screen (before they were IPS) is responsible, which occupies almost the entire front except for the notch (the eyebrow) at the top."

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This design has meant that fingerprint control has to be dispensed with and a facial scanner has been used to facilitate access to the terminal.Since the touch ID could not be placed under the screen and they did not want to place it behind, this is the solution adopted. And it worked out well for them, because Face ID, which is called the new unlocking method, works really well However ¿ Is it safe? At first it seems that it is safer than the iris scanner launched by Samsung in its terminals and faster, but what if we compare it with Windows Hello? "

That is what they have raised in an experiment that has tried to demonstrate the security of Microsoft's unlocking method compared to Apple's Face ID. We already saw at the time how they had managed to fool Face ID by using a 3D-printed mask that was helped by some images and thus trying to emulate a person's face. Would Windows Hello fall into the same trap?

To achieve this, Matthias Deeg and Philipp Buchegger, who work for SySS, used two different types of tests: in one they had Enhanced Anti-Spoofing and the other were carried out without this option and according to the results, the conclusions were not long in coming.

Before we continue, remember that Enhanced Anti-Spoofing is an optional security feature that is not enabled by default in Windows 10 and that uses algorithms to determine if what is in front of the camera is a photograph or a real human being. A way to prevent spoofing that requires the device to be compliant.

And going back to the test they came to the conclusion that Windows Hello is safe, very safe, but this safety depends on two factors . On the one hand whatever the device is used and on the other hand it can vary depending on which version of Windows 10 is installed on the device

In tests with Windows Hello on devices running co_hardware_ that supports Enhanced Anti-Spoofing and Windows 10 versions 1703 or 1709, failed to fool Windows Hello in the same way that it had been possible to do with Face ID.Windows Hello was therefore more secure.

The problem arose however when using older versions of Windows 10 on computers that also did not have _hardware_ Enhanced Anti-Spoofing, computers in which security was compromised.

At this point it becomes more valuable than ever to remember that it is advisable to keep the equipment updated and in the case of the computers of the Microsoft platform, have the latest version of Windows 10 available and thus not compromise or at least make it difficult, the security of our equipment.

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