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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."
What are you talking about? Why would they get arrested for demonstrating the vulnerability of an authentication system??? Sensationalism anyone?
No, just an epic fail at getting his facts straight ...
There is around 1.3 to 1.5 billion people in China, and only about 7 billion in the entire world.
Besides, without all those chinese, where else are you going to get a takeaway at 4am ? Please don't get me wrong, I'm not attempting to follow suit ... I think they are the hardest working people on the planet, which you might sniff at, but I think is admirable. If we all had the chinese work ethic, maybe we wouldn't be in such a mess.