MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies
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Re: MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies
#2My question is:
"Selfie as a Password", - Is it really secure?
Re: MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies
#3My question is: "Selfie as a Password", - Is it really secure?
Edit: after reading JoeAltmaier and thinking more about it, its a terrible idea. You cant change it, its easy to dupe. No. Just no.
Ill leave my original post though. :-)
Id argue its more or less the same as a pin. Both could be gotten past with a determined attacker or a generic setup(camera for pin/selfie).
Infact id say easier for certain people who post selfies on public sites, ripm. Cut and paste on x background.
The more i think about it, the stupider the idea sounds.
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#4(I'm probably dead for being a new account, but post for the benefit of the showdead people)
It really is facial identification, but is coached in so much language to seem hip and cool that it becomes almost uncomfortable. MC is saying that they will allow facial identification as an authenticator is much less interesting of a story I suppose.
Re: MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies
#5I hate selfies. Please leave pin codes for people who don't trust image recognition algorithms enough.
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#6Relevant link: "Fingerprints are usernames, not password" (applies to all biometrics): http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
Long story short, it's a bad idea, and it's really not secure.
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#7My question is: "Selfie as a Password", - Is it really secure?
Its a terrible idea. Its a password you can't change, can't even choose, leave lying about all over the place. Its everything a password shouldn't be.
Re: MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies
#8This reminds me of the hat from fifth element:
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5000000/The-Fifth-El...
Re: MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies
#9Seems to me that this is a cheap, relatively smart piece of marketing, rather than a serious proposition - note the heartbeat and voice recognition ideas that they're also "experimenting" with.
Re: MasterCard to start verifying transactions through selfies
#10There's a better link here [1], which explains with more details.
Main thing seems that it's not just facial recognition, you can use a fingerprint scanner (assuming your phone has one) instead, and that it requires you to blink when you're being scanned by the app. So it doesn't seem to be just static image recognition, it's looking at the video stream to ensure that your face is there and that it can blink (getting around the 'just hold a photo in front of the camera' problem).
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/01/technology/mastercard-facial...