Time to start 3D-printing faces...

Someone1234 · on March 17, 2015

You could, but it is an IR camera, so you better have the IR characteristics of your 3D face match also. If you combine IR and visible light photography you actually get a layered face-scan which is VERY hard to fake (not impossible, hard).

e.g. http://produceconsumerobot.com/biosensing/content/Face%20fev...

higherpurpose · on March 17, 2015

What if you just hack the webcam firmware - like celebrity hackers and FBI have done for years already?

MichaelGG · on March 17, 2015

If you can modify firmware, you've probably already won. Unless the auth is done remotely and requires remote attestation, perhaps.

Karawebnetwork · on March 17, 2015

I'm sure it could be done with paper folding.

TeMPOraL · on March 17, 2015

Come to think of it... print a cylindrical projection of the photo and then wrap around a cylinder...

Groxx · on March 17, 2015

And then point a projector at it to warm up the paper at the right places.

I really wish biometrics would quit claiming to be significant improvements over anything but writing your password on a post-it on the computer. They all fall very quickly.