{"id":15690,"date":"2016-08-29T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15690"},"modified":"2016-08-29T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T16:56:55","slug":"tricking-facial-recognition-with-3d-rendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/29\/tricking-facial-recognition-with-3d-rendering\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricking Facial Recognition With 3D Rendering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/08\/hackers-trick-facial-recognition-logins-photos-facebook-thanks-zuck\/\">Lily Hay Newman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/08\/hackers-trick-facial-recognition-logins-photos-facebook-thanks-zuck\/\"><p>Earlier this month at the Usenix security conference, security and computer vision specialists from the University of North Carolina presented a system that uses digital 3-D facial models based on publicly available photos and displayed with mobile virtual reality technology to defeat facial recognition systems. A VR-style face, rendered in three dimensions, gives the motion and depth cues that a security system is generally checking for. The researchers used a VR system shown on a smartphone&rsquo;s screen for its accessibility and portability.<\/p>\n<p>Their attack, which successfully spoofed four of the five systems they tried, is a reminder of the downside to authenticating your identity with biometrics. By and large your bodily features remain constant, so if your biometric data is compromised or publicly available, it&rsquo;s at risk of being recorded and exploited. Faces plastered across the web on social media are especially vulnerable&mdash;look no further than the wealth of facial biometric data literally called Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily Hay Newman: Earlier this month at the Usenix security conference, security and computer vision specialists from the University of North Carolina presented a system that uses digital 3-D facial models based on publicly available photos and displayed with mobile virtual reality technology to defeat facial recognition systems. A VR-style face, rendered in three dimensions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119,25,153,48],"class_list":["post-15690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-3d","tag-facebook","tag-photography","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15691,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690\/revisions\/15691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}