Friday, August 21, 2015

Microsoft is able to distinguish between these twins. And you? – Gazeta.pl

Windows Hello is a new feature introduced to the Windows 10 . It allows you to gain access to the computer based on an analysis of fingerprints or photographs.

Journalists The Australian decided to test the effectiveness of this method in practice. To the Editor so we invited six bar twins and whether the algorithms developed by Microsoft may be deceived. Each participant created a test account on a Windows 10 protected by Windows Hello. Then it was decided to test whether the twins will be able to log on to each other their accounts.



One defeat, five wins

The Australian security test Microsoft came out very well. In five cases, Windows Hello did not allow for the authorization of the second of twins. In one case, a system of “go silly” and no longer recognizes both of the twins without letting any log on to the computer. The twins from the photo below does not seem so similar, but for some reason Windows in their case did not work.

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​​ Personnel from the recording owned by The Australian

The criminals did not steal the face

Microsoft says Windows Hello is one of the safest forms authorization, because criminals are not able to copy biometric data. Windows Hello to action is needed because a special camera Intel. RealSense films in three techniques: traditionally, in 3D and infrared.

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Regular passwords are becoming easier to break or acquisitions of Windows Hello and therefore may prove to be a very effective way of ensuring security. According to Microsoft’s system fails once in 100 thousand. trials.

How did the The Australian experiment? See for yourself. Film (copyrighted) can be found here.

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