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Researchers Hack Biometric Faces
yahoi sends in news from a week or so back: "Vietnamese researchers have cracked the facial recognition technology used for authentication in Lenovo, Asus, and Toshiba laptops in lieu of the standard logon/password. The researchers were able to easily bypass the biometric authentication system built into the laptops by using photos of an authorized user, as well as by presenting multiple phony facial images in brute-force attacks. One of the researchers will demonstrate the hack at Black Hat DC this week. He says the laptop makers should remove the facial biometrics feature from their products because the vulnerability of this technology can't be fixed."
Exactly how is someone going to get photo of you of sufficient quality to fool the recognition system without you knowing about it? You'll see the person taking the photo, and thus be able to deal with the potential breach before it ever happens.
As far as friends/wives trying to snap shots of you for later misuse, I'd suggest you wear a bakclava all the time, or a burlap sack if you're ugly enough. Or find yourself friends/wife you can actually trust not to screw you over.
9 billion Chinese probably all can get into each other's raptops, no shit, G.I.
What, all 9 of them? Including Vietnamese and Koreans?