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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.
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All it Takes to Steal Your Face is a Special Pair of Glasses
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poverty, n.:
An unfortunate state that persists as long
as anyone lacks anything he would like to have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bogsnoticus on Wednesday November 02 2016, @09:53PM
After all of the "copyright violation is not theft" arguments that have been made, martyb still insists on posting this story as "steal"?
Copying, is not stealing.
To steal somebody's face, you'd need a scalpel, or at least a sharp knife.
Preferably with Nicholas Cage and John Travolta locked up somewhere they can't interfere.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @10:57PM
Oh look, dictionary pedant is angry that the rest of the world doesn't conform to his with this personal definitions.
That's never happened before!
Using someone else's biometrics to impersonate them easily falls within the common usages of the word "steal."
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/steal [oxforddictionaries.com]
steal (verb):
1.1 Dishonestly pass off (another person's ideas) as one's own.
steal (noun):
2.1 An idea taken from another work.
Will you also lecture us that it is impossible to steal someone's heart?
Get over your brittle self.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @11:14PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_Your_Face [wikipedia.org]
> Steal Your Face is a live double album by the Grateful Dead, released in June 1976.
> ...
> The title of the album derives from the lyrics of "He's Gone", a song that does not appear on the album ("Like I told ya, what I said, steal your face right off your head").
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Bogsnoticus on Thursday November 03 2016, @05:54AM
A face is a physical object, therefore the definition used to to word "steal" would fall under the first definition in the link you provided.
"Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it."
If you want to fling accusations of pedantry around, and then partake in it yourself, I'd suggest you do it in a way where your own sources won't betray you.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.