{"id":92,"date":"2005-10-09T22:13:58","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T04:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/92"},"modified":"2005-10-09T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T04:13:58","slug":"an-ounce-of-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/92","title":{"rendered":"An ounce of social engineering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things make me laugh. Like, for instance: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3541444.stm\">Grins banned from passport pics<\/a>, wherein it is declared that there are rules for passport pictures that say you can&#8217;t smile because it confuses face recognition systems.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> going on is that the face recognition systems don&#8217;t work <em>at all<\/em>, and they just want to get people who don&#8217;t want to be found to run around airports smiling all the time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting that in my three-and-a-half seconds of research for this post, the second hit in a web search reveals this paper: <a href=\"http:\/\/citeseer.ist.psu.edu\/595767.html\">Smiling Faces are Better for Face Recognition<\/a>. Har, and I mean har. Of course, we can&#8217;t trust that paper, right, cuz the first author is named Yaser.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of things that are amusing in various ways and simultaneously related to face recognition, I love the term &#8216;eigenfaces&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/citeseer.ist.psu.edu\/context\/61360\/0\">Eigenfaces for recognition<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things make me laugh. Like, for instance: Grins banned from passport pics, wherein it is declared that there are rules for passport pictures that say you can&#8217;t smile because it confuses face recognition systems. What&#8217;s really going on is that the face recognition systems don&#8217;t work at all, and they just want to get people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,49,50,56],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-law","tag-silliness","tag-sociology","tag-technology","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}