[jnazario]

isn't facial recognition easily defeated with a picture of the person's face?

that said i concur, the proliferation of built-in cameras should spur us to adopt biometrics such as facial recognition, but it's gotta be better than picking out a few points and doing a simple match like most CV facial recognition systems do. some sort of challenge-response maybe, like "wink your left eye" or "blow a kiss", anything that a simple, static picture couldn't defeat.

but i concur on the larger paradigm - the hardware is common enough to force us to consider biometrics as commonplace.

[cle]

Maybe if Microsoft gets Kinect sensors into their laptops, this kind of facial recognition will be much harder to fake...