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Former Boston police commissioner Francis "Mickey" Roache died Monday, December 17. He was 82.
Roache grew up in South Boston, where he was a childhood friend of Ray Flynn, who as mayor appointed Roache police commissioner in 1985.
A cybersecurity reporter and his team at Forbes used a 3D printer to replicate his head and subsequently unlocked several smartphone brands that offer facial recognition security features. Facial recognition, and fingerprint and iris detection, are known as "biometric" tools.
Reporter Thomas Brewster writes that he and his team used a "spoof face" to successfully unlock four Android devices, "an LG G7 ThinQ, a Samsung S9, a Samsung Note 8 and a OnePlus 6." Brewster adds that an iPhone X was never fooled by the facsimile of his face.