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Comment by fermuch | Hacker News Reader

What other cost are you referring to? The 3D printer? You can send your design to a studio and they'll print it for you and send it, or you can rent time in some places to get access to a printer, without needing to buy one.

In any case, if it needed only a paper print, you wouldn't count the cost of the printer, since you can print it anywhere.

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Human labor is expensive. Not accounting for that is a bit disingenuous.

Artists aren't particularly well paid.

… for pure art, maybe. For commercial artists, especially ones capable of precise results on a deadline and, in this case, also not asking too many questions?

not true either, read up on past stories of skilled forgers of paper currency: their labor was surprisingly inexpensive.

Do you have any citations?

Human labor cost for example, but apart from that: how many masks were used to trick Face ID? I would assume it was not prototype number 1 that did the trick

$150 for a printable parts of the mask.

Then "hand made" skin, which they don't reference cost or time spent creating.

Then "hand made" nose, which they don't reference cost or time spent creating.

Also makeup, which they don't reference cost or time spent applying.

This is a security firm serving up info with HTTP, not HTTPS, ducking every serious question to the point it seems likely they are hiding something. Even if everything they claim is true, their attack vector is so difficult chances of success would seem to be effectively nil.

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