Scammers in China turn photos into vids to crack tax dept facial recognition system
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/03/31/tax_scammers_fool_ai_facial_recognition/
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According to state-controlled outlet [1]Xinhua , the suspects tricked the State Taxation Administration platform’s identity verification system by manipulating high-def photos with a widely available app that turns photos into videos.
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The defendants then obtained a smartphone that allowed them to bypass its camera during facial authentication, instead feeding their doctored videos into the system.
The facial recognition system fell for the ruse and authenticated the people depicted in the videos, prosecutors claim.
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Once logged in, the pair issued fake invoices on behalf of a shell company, and presumably hoped they'd be paid, the prosecutor alleged.
According to Shanghai prosecutors, the duo had been at it since 2018. The two men also allegedly cracked a business license issuance app and added their own facial biometrics so they could log on as legitimate users.
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China was an [6]early adopter of facial recognition identity verification and the technology now permeates everyday life as a common authentication method in retail transactions and to access government services. China also makes extensive use of facial recognition as a security measure. ®
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[1] http://www.xinhuanet.com/2021-03/30/c_1127270651.htm
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YGRIQX9i3rojIhxEoF-HngAAAAg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33YGRIQX9i3rojIhxEoF-HngAAAAg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/09/acs_mask_detection/
[5] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_security/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YGRIQX9i3rojIhxEoF-HngAAAAg&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2012/04/17/china_vide_surveillance_face_recongition/
[7] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: And what are the UK's internal vaccine passports going to use?
I can't imagine Michael Gove trying to be charming, sounds creepy to me.
I also can't imagine Vax passports being run efficiently, considering that vaccination does not mean you can't catch vivid, does not mean you can't be a spreader and in addition the levels and reliability of regular testing have neither the infrastructure or a short enough response time to be effective.
Still it would create jobs, join the sanitary plod anyone?
Re: And what are the UK's internal vaccine passports going to use?
And thus we see the actual reason for the hysteria.
Re: And what are the UK's internal vaccine passports going to use?
"I can't imagine Michael Gove trying to be charming, sounds creepy to me"
Profoundly creepy but also weirdly heartbreaking?
https://youtu.be/gxN1eRtbb80?t=89
"I came to discus the trade agreement.. and find love"
Re: And what are the UK's internal vaccine passports going to use?
The going rate for not developing COVID apps is £30million. Does that really say that they are going to spend less than £450,000 to develop an app? They won't even be able to design the icon for that kind of small change.
Yeah, but have they been arrested?
Inevitable
As such systems can't actually "see" images as humans see them but merely decide on the basis of statistical approximations to numerical digests of pixel value arrays, there's always going to be a way to fool them. The human capacity for intuitive suspicion is not yet understood (and no, FMRI data don't help here as it's not a matter of which bit of the brain is active, but what it's actually doing) so we can't build it into our machines. There are certain functions for which competent humans are invaluable, where machines at best perform like the very least perceptive and attentive of humans.
And what are the UK's internal vaccine passports going to use?
I'll give you a guess...
[1]Vaccine certificates are ‘ID cards on steroids’
Filings seen by the Telegraph revealed grants to develop the scheme, worth a total £450,000, on key aspects needed to get it up-and-running: verification and storage of digital certificates, facial recognition technology, proof of ‘covid credentials’, apps, accreditation platforms for large events.
[1] https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2021/03/30/vaccine-certificates-are-id-cards-on-steroids/