https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/unlocking-android-phones-with-a-3d-printed-head/
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Quelle surprise. Unlocking a biometrically locked smartphone was the plot of one of Mack Reynold’s short stories back in 1974. He didn’t call it a smartphone, but that’s what it was.
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My guess is that the next step after biometrics will be off device sensors, then something I think of as “continuity”.
Off device sensors means your device would reach out to other sensors (cameras, etc) in the vicinity and ask them to verify your identity; that’d give more, unconnected data points about who you are, and verify that you are not getting up to hijinks; 3rd party cameras could verify that not only is it you, but you’re not holding up fake heads or pictures of someone else or indeed are not a corpse being propped up.
That could lead to new auth standards, where apps routinely ignore the device they are on and ask the environment for identity information.
“Continuity” is where that gets ubiquitous enough, we are surveiled constantly enough and redundantly enough, that the environment has a full history of the provenance of you as a person over time. So, it’s not just relying on you standing there and looking like you in the moment; it watched you get up in the morning, shower and dress, take the train, walk to work, get the elevator, walk into the office and then pull out your phone and yes, that is you because it has an unbroken chain of provenance to this moment.
But we’ll have other problems by then 😉
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Just at the moment I’m sticking with fingerprint though!
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A beautiful vision of the future in which each solution is an order of magnitude worse than the problem it solves. And so on ad infinitum.
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Anyone remember Brother from Another Planet? Aside that I think Emlyn O’Regan is showing us where it will go, whether we like it or not.
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Yes, what Pieter Lamers said!
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Android face recognition is not even a biometric unlock, WTF is this article trying to prove?
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