> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Bogstad > > Randomly apropos to biometrics, a few months ago I was out with some > techies and one of them was talking about his new cell phone and > mentioned that it had the ability to > use facial recognition to unlock his phone. (Although, he wasn't > using the feature.) At my urging he went ahead and set it up. We > then took a picture of him with someone else's smartphone, displayed > it full screen on the second phone and after moving the phones back > and forth for about 30? seconds managed to unlock the first phone. I > don't recall the models of the phones (probably Android though) and I > don't know know how repeatable this would be; but it certainly didn't > do anything to encourage me to trust facial recognition for security > purposes.
That's a crappy implementation. I recently talked to a developer who works on facial recognition, and a good system picks a random word or sequence of words for you to read, or asks you to move your face in a particular way, in order to confirm you're not just a still photo. The actual weakness is identical twins - they don't have any awesome way to distinguish between twins - The best systems combine many different forms of biometrics including face recognition, voice recognition, behavioral recognition, etc. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
