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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” »
A new feature in Apple’s new iPhone operating system — iOS 11 — will allow users to quickly disable Touch ID. A new setting, designed to automate emergency services calls, lets iPhone users tap the power button quickly five times to call 911. This doesn’t automatically dial the emergency services by default, but it brings … Read More “iOS 11 Allows Users to Disable Touch ID” »
It was easy: The hackers took a medium range photo of their subject with a digital camera’s night mode, and printed the infrared image. Then, presumably to give the image some depth, the hackers placed a contact lens on top of the printed picture. Powered by WPeMatico