Biometric Face Recognition Exploit

clscott writes "A researcher at the U. of Ottawa has developed an exploit to which most biometric systems are probably vulnerable. He developed an algorithm which allows a fairly high quality image of a person to be regenerated from a face recognition template. Three commercial face rec. algorithms were tested and in all cases the image could masquerade to the algorithm as the target person. Here are links to a talk and a paper. Unfortunately, biometric templates are currently considered to be non-identifiable, much like a password hash. This means that legislation gets passed to require hundreds of millions of people to have their biometrics encoded onto their passports. This kind of vulnerability could mean that anyone who reads these documents has access to the holders fingerprint, iris images, etc."

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Yo' Mama's So Ugly...

[sbillard]

Yo mama's so ugly, she made the face recog system halt

Yo mama's so ugly, they use her face to stamp out gorilla cookies (Thanks Red Fox)

Yo mama's so ugly, you could hear the face recog cameras scream.

Yo mama's so ugly, when you brought her on the plane, they made you check your bag.

Yo mama's so ugly, she made Medusa's snakes turn to stone.

*_ducks and covers_*

Re:Yo' Mama's So Ugly...

[VCAGuy]

A few more:

Yo mama's so ugly, the Dept. of Homeland Security screeners refuse to run a backscatter x-ray on her.

Yo mama's so ugly, CAPPS has a warning on her: "may induce vomiting."

Yo mama's so ugly, the retinal scanners tell her to step back.

Yo mama's so ugly, fingerprint scanners file restraining orders to keep her from touching them.

"Thank you! I'll be here 'till Tuesday."