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All it Takes to Steal Your Face is a Special Pair of Glasses

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 02 2016, @06:13PM   
from the you-lookin'-at-ME? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Computers, phones, and even online stores are starting to use your face as a password. But new research from Carnegie Mellon University shows that facial recognition software is far from secure.

In a paper (pdf) presented at a security conference on Oct. 28, researchers showed they could trick AI facial recognition systems into misidentifying faces—making someone caught on camera appear to be someone else, or even unrecognizable as human. With a special pair of eyeglass frames, the team forced commercial-grade facial recognition software into identifying the wrong person with up to 100% success rates.

http://qz.com/823820/carnegie-mellon-made-a-special-pair-of-glasses-that-lets-you-steal-a-digital-identity/

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Original Submission

• Bioirony Bioirony (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:12PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:12PM (#421815)

  There is a lot of irony in you posting a google link with an embedded tracking-id in the comments on a story about avoiding tracking.

  Here's a clean link to the same search: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=clown+nose+glasses&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gbv=1 [google.com]

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• Re:Bioirony (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday November 03 2016, @04:13PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Thursday November 03 2016, @04:13PM (#422096)

  The more people use the same tracking ID, the less valid its tracking becomes.

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