Terrorists, or any other people who want to do harm, can fool the facial recognition system used by Schipol airport in Amsterdam to control travelers' passports and allow boarding. Everything was revealed as part of a test carried out by a company specialized in computer security, this one using a picture from a mobile phone, and tricked the control devices at the airport, which used facial recognition.
A simple picture on the phone it allowed the person to pass the passport check at the airport, and this is a sign that terrorists can do the same thing with mobile phones, without even that much effort. It is astonishing that the facial recognition system at an airport like the one in Schipol could be fooled in this way, and this because it had to be thought to reject anything other than the face of the person who presents himself for control.
TERRORISTS can TRICK the Facial Recognition System at Amsterdam Airport
The same company specialized in computer security also fooled a control system for crossing the border in China, where facial recognition was also used, but this time a 3D mask was needed. Also in China, researchers tricked a system that allows payments for public transport rides using facial recognition, and Alipay and Wechat also failed this very important security test they did.
The researchers said the tests, which were conducted on three continents, fooled two mobile payment systems and a Chinese border checkpoint. At the self-boarding terminal at Schiphol Airport, the largest airport in the Netherlands, the Kneron team fooled the sensor with just a photo on a phone screen.”
Face ID was the only strong link in their test, and that's because Apple's facial recognition system couldn't be fooled by the researchers, which I've seen others do in the past. It is still very interesting that Face ID has a more advanced facial recognition system than the one at the passport control point at a very busy airport in Europe, or at a border crossing point in China.
It should be mentioned that the masks created by researchers are very expensive and cannot be created by anyone, but for terrorist organizations or organized crime networks, this is not a big problem.
