3 ms·
Reverse-Engineered Irises Look So Real, They Fool Eye-Scanners
- andrewaylett 14y agoPreaching to the choir, I know, but every time a story like this comes along I'm hopeful that people will recognise that relying on biometric identifiers is a really bad idea. This one's worse than usual: people thought iris scanning was more secure (than, say, fingerprints), but it turns out to be less secure as it's probably not all that difficult to use contact lenses to fool a scanner.
- bsenftner 14y agobiometrics needs to get comprehensive, with dozens of separate identifying features, and no public release of what those features are.
- webwarrior 14y agoSecurity through obscurity?
- adamzochowski 14y agoThat is what a password is.
- awongh 14y agoIt seems like a simple fix would help make this more secure in the real world: orientation- make it more difficult for a contact lens to work (now it has to be rotated in the correct angle) I can't think of a reason this would be hard to implement in software....