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by Aurornis 167 days ago
In 2025/2026 it’s not hard to generate fake videos that bypass these security gates.
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They don't let you upload facefusion videos. The video has to come from the front-facing camera on a phone.

There is an extremely profitable company (whose data hoard keeps geting hacked but why should they care?) built around this:

  https://www.au10tix.com/
Most apps use device attestation (derived from secure boot) to make sure the video stream is really coming from a front-facing camera on a physical device. If Hinge isn't doing this yet they surely will be in 5, 4, 3, 2...
Can someone not just have an additional device and play a video on top of it?

Fundamentally no amount of front facing camera on a physical device or other shenanigan a company might do can really do anything about it?

Front-facing paired with IR depth map would map it an order of magnitude harder, but I don't know what the standards are around that or what the installed base is on Android.
I know, but you need to think like someone trying to get around the limitation with the lowest effort possible.

They don't feed it a video clip. They hold the camera in front of a screen playing the video. Use a low-end phone with a blurry camera to increase your chances.

> They hold the camera in front of a screen playing the video.

Neural networks are very, very, very good at detecting this.

It's much easier than detecting "liveness" (for whatever definition of that term you subscribe to).