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isn't facial recognition easily defeated with a picture of the person's face?

that said i concur, the proliferation of built-in cameras should spur us to adopt biometrics such as facial recognition, but it's gotta be better than picking out a few points and doing a simple match like most CV facial recognition systems do. some sort of challenge-response maybe, like "wink your left eye" or "blow a kiss", anything that a simple, static picture couldn't defeat.

but i concur on the larger paradigm - the hardware is common enough to force us to consider biometrics as commonplace.



Maybe if Microsoft gets Kinect sensors into their laptops, this kind of facial recognition will be much harder to fake...




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