apropos to the biometrics essay in the Jan 2009 crypto-gram:
Researchers Hack Biometric Faces slashdot.org/palm/18/09/02/17/216216_1.shtml from the face-off dept. posted by kdawson on 2009-02-18 01:35:00 yahoi sends in news from a week or so back: "Vietnamese researchers have cracked the facial recognition technology [1] used for authentication in Lenovo, Asus, and Toshiba laptops in lieu of the standard logon/password. The researchers were able to easily bypass the biometric authentication system built into the laptops by using photos of an authorized user, as well as by presenting multiple phony facial images in brute-force attacks. One of the researchers will demonstrate the hack at Black Hat DC this week. He says the laptop makers should remove the facial biometrics feature from their products because the vulnerability of this technology can't be fixed." [1] http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml;jsess ionid=1TT4XOGIHD2DCQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=213901113 --- end --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
