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Detecting Living Eyeballs During Retinal Scan
- posterboy 10y agoWhat about abuse of the person bearing the eyeball while still attached and living. Have a second camera verify the whole picture, the number of persons involved etc.
- benologist 10y agoWhat about coercion via phone and internet?
- niccaluim 10y agoWhat about "this was never a good idea." Can't remember where I read this, but biometrics are a username, not a password!
- personjerry 10y agohttp://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user-names-not.html http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
- Analemma_ 10y agoMy answer is the same as with most "whaddabout... " questions with biometrics: consider the threat model. How likely is it that you'll run into someone who would threaten you with bodily harm to get you to unlock a phone with your retina but wouldn't do the same thing if you had a passcode? Not very. So, this proposal improves on security for at least one scenario, while being no worse at another - that's an improvement. Don't succumb to the Nirvana fallacy.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThe only case in which biometrics can be considered secure is when the biometric scanner is paired with an armed guard.
- therobot24 10y agoiris not retinal...very different
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agoFACTS DO NOT BELONG HERE. you're all idiots.
- eridius 10y agoEven if the pupil dilation response to light is not consistent over time (or affected by drinking/stress), wouldn't the mere fact that it responded at all be proof of a living eye?
- bitwize 10y agoSo Doomguy's "mash the corpse's head into the bioscanner" trick won't actually work in the future?