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Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren’t going anywhere in the foreseeable future and why [insert thing here] isn’t going to kill them. No amount of focusing on how bad passwords are or how many accounts have been breached … Read More “Troy Hunt on Passwords” »
At least right now, facial recognition algorithms don’t work with Juggalo makeup. Powered by WPeMatico
This acoustic technology identifies individuals by their ear shapes. No information about either false positives or false negatives. Powered by WPeMatico
It’s routine for US police to unlock iPhones with the fingerprints of dead people. It seems only to work with recently dead people. Powered by WPeMatico
Yet another development in the arms race between facial recognition systems and facial-recognition-system foolers. BoingBoing post. Powered by WPeMatico
It only took a week: On Friday, Vietnamese security firm Bkav released a blog post and video showing that — by all appearances — they’d cracked FaceID with a composite mask of 3-D-printed plastic, silicone, makeup, and simple paper cutouts, which in combination tricked an iPhone X into unlocking. The article points out that the … Read More “Apple FaceID Hacked” »
Embedded in this story about infidelity and a mid-flight altercation, there’s an interesting security tidbit: The woman had unlocked her husband’s phone using his thumb impression when he was sleeping… Powered by WPeMatico
Turns out that heart size doesn’t change throughout your adult life, and you can use low-level Doppler radar to scan the size — even at a distance — as a biometric. Research paper (to be available soon). Powered by WPeMatico
This is a good interview with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering about FaceID. Honestly, I don’t know what to think. I am confident that Apple is not collecting a photo database, but not optimistic that it can’t be hacked with fake faces. I dislike the fact that the police can point the phone at someone … Read More “Apple’s FaceID” »
I recently wrote about the new ability to disable the Touch ID login on iPhones. This is important because of a weirdness in current US law that protects people’s passcodes from forced disclosure in ways it does not protect actions: being forced to place a thumb on a fingerprint reader. There’s another, more significant, change: … Read More “Another iPhone Change to Frustrate the Police” »