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Using Face Recognition Instead of a PIN Number
coondoggie writes "Face recognition as a unique biometric is growing slowly in certain corporate and consumer applications, but researchers at the University of Houston (UH) are trying to make the technology far more ubiquitous and secure: they want it to replace the dozens of personal identification numbers (PIN), passwords and credit card numbers everyone uses every day.
University researchers developed the URxD face recognition software that uses a three-dimensional snapshot of a person's face to create a unique biometric identifier."
Because it requires them to shave.
"Please stuck your head in the scanner for face recognition."
*grumble*
"Your face was not recognized, please rub your face with the towel provided and try agiain."
*damn*
"We failed to recognized your face after several trials. We'll now shave your face for a better recognition result. To avoid you moving your head while shaving is in progress, we'll lock your head firmly now."
*shaver pop out*
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
The reason why it is a bad idea to use your face as a password is that everyone can see your freakin' face. Why not just write your password in black marker on your forehead?
That's secure right?
How we know is more important than what we know.
The next person who makes an acronym joke, I'm going to fire a SAM-Missile like TCP/IP protocol attack on. I'm serious, you're going to need a DC Comics superhero or the skills of an FPS shooter main character to survive this one. First, your FAT table will go, then your NIC card, then all your OSS software, and for the final coupe de gras, I'll translate all your code to the COBOL language.
Yeah, you'll be FUBAR beyond all recognition.
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Twins won't be a problem: the software can tell them apart because the evil one has a goatee and the good one doesn't.
Yes, even the female ones.
I was walking over to an ATM machine the other day, when I realized that many other people have the same PIN number as me. I thought "they should have a personalized PIN number." Also, my bank still uses those old CRT tubes and they are hard to read, so they really need to upgrade the whole thing. Anyway I went into the bank to sit and talk to a representative about this, and I was reading a DC comic, and the light next to me was flickering. Damn that AC current! I took out my laptop, since I wanted to learn more about CSS style sheets. (Are they under the GPL license btw ?) After about 5 minutes of reading I had a headache - I felt like an ICBM missile had hit my head! Or maybe it was from my LCD display. What I need is a vacation I thought - so I went home and started to pack my SCUBA gear.
Yep. Might just want to limit this system to in-store purchases. Then when a would-be thief walks into a Best Buy to get a plasma TV using my card and severed head, the clerk may get suspicious and ask for a second piece of ID.