Everyone is making the same 'Game of Thrones' joke about the iPhone X

Apple didn't plan for THIS.
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Sam Haysom
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Unless you've been living completely internet-free for the past 24 hours, chances are you'll have heard about the iPhone X's facial recognition.

As soon as that slightly creepy FaceID screen popped up at the Apple event, though, people only had one thing on their minds...

Yep: looks like Apple took some inspiration from everyone's favourite fictional face-swapping assassin.

And it turns out their tech guys may have overlooked a major security weakness.

If Arya was alive in the present day she would clearly be more powerful than ever before.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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