Something over twenty years ago, I met my father and stepmother at Dulles. He had adhesive tape all over his nose from a fall on vacation. I wonder how that would have worked.
The same way TSA verifies your face against your physical identity credential: a margin of error, with additional proofing performed if your face isn’t enough (you can fly without a government ID, for example, if you show up a bit earlier at the TSA checkpoint for additional screening/proofing).
Or we could just use the existing technology, which is more reliable, simpler, cheaper, requires less expensive gear, is easier to set up and maintain, can be explained to the layperson in 2-3 sentences, and offers far less chance for bad actors to abuse it.
Just because something is more complex, doesn't make it better.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 29.9 ms ] threadI'm really really not in favour of the trend to biometricize everything because I just do not think our current methods are accurate enough.
I can already envision the long and growing queue of badly angered, badly sunburned tourists leaving any number of places in the Caribbean
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification (control-f Forgot Your ID?)
Just because something is more complex, doesn't make it better.