Fake face fools fones

Forbes has added to the ever-growing pantheon of ways to trick biometrics by printing a 3D head and using it to break into Android phones. We’ve long known how easy it is to spoof static authentication by holding up a 2D picture to a camera, as Google found out after filing a patent to let users unlock their phones by, say, sticking out your tongue or wiggling your eyebrows… …or, in the case of fingerprints, by making a dummy fingerprint out of wood glue or a 2D inkjet printout.

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