Informations about SSL certificates and networks security
Auto Added by WPeMatico
In case you don’t have enough to worry about, someone has built a credible handwriting machine: This is still a work in progress, but the project seeks to solve one of the biggest problems with other homework machines, such as this one that I covered a few months ago after it blew up on social … Read More “Credible Handwriting Machine” »
A reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to fool the voice authentication system for Lloyd’s Bank. Powered by WPeMatico
It’s not actually banned in the EU yet — the legislative process is much more complicated than that — but it’s a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance. To respect “privacy and human dignity,” MEPs said that EU lawmakers should pass a permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces, … Read More “The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance” »
Sound waves through the body are unique enough to be a biometric: “Modeling allowed us to infer what structures or material features of the human body actually differentiated people,” explains Joo Yong Sim, one of the ETRI researchers who conducted the study. “For example, we could see how the structure, size, and weight of the … Read More “Yet Another Biometric: Bioacoustic Signatures” »
Coming out of the Privacy Commissioners’ Conference in Albania, Public Voice is launching a petition for an international moratorium on using facial recognition software for mass surveillance. You can sign on as an individual or an organization. I did. You should as well. No, I don’t think that countries will magically adopt this moratorium. But … Read More “Public Voice Launches Petition for an International Moratorium on Using Facial Recognition for Mass Surveillance” »
This article discusses new types of biometrics under development, including gait, scent, heartbeat, microbiome, and butt shape (no, really). Powered by WPeMatico
Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite the best intentions, the decision to deploy technology like biometrics is built on a number of unproven assumptions, such as, technology solutions can fix deeply embedded political problems. And that auditing for fraud requires entire populations to be tracked using their personal … Read More “Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid” »
Apple’s FaceID has a liveness detection feature, which prevents someone from unlocking a victim’s phone by putting it in front of his face while he’s sleeping. That feature has been hacked: Researchers on Wednesday during Black Hat USA 2019 demonstrated an attack that allowed them to bypass a victim’s FaceID and log into their phone … Read More “Bypassing Apple FaceID’s Liveness Detection Feature” »
MIT Technology Review is reporting about an infrared laser device that can identify people by their unique cardiac signature at a distance: A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seeing their face: instead it detects their unique cardiac signature with an infrared laser. While it … Read More “Cardiac Biometric” »
Nice bit of adversarial machine learning. The image from this news article is most of what you need to know, but here’s the research paper. Powered by WPeMatico