It often works against technology too

from here and here (image source)

When you think about how easy it is to fool people and you realize the technology isn't as good as people then face recognition technology loses that thin veneer of magical security security dust and you start to have more realistic expectations of it.

Last century called and they want their vuln back

from here

I kid you not, I was holding up photos in front of face recognition cameras 20 years ago, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't the first person to think of it. This recent finding may have a novel way of presenting the captured image to the system, but it's still just feeding a captured image to the system. Since the only real tricky bit was the fact that the system required an infrared image, I suspect a photo printed with infrared ink might have done the trick without needing to rely on any camera funny-business.

20 years and face rec is still being bypassed in fundamentally the same way. Is it any wonder I have no faith in biometrics?

A picture is worth a thousand logins

from here

I used to bypass facial recognition with photographs all the time a couple decades ago. Supposedly there are ways of preventing that from happening now but apparently they don't always work.