fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoMonkey photo on ID activates Philippine SIM cards, exposing loophole in new law vs scammerswww.straitstimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1371arrow-down111cross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.ca
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minus-squarebrianorca@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 months agoThey added face recognition to the SIM registration process, in an attempt to reduce fraud. (Maybe by limiting or not allowing duplicate faces.) But a monkey face works too, and they are plentiful on the islands, supplying many unique faces.
minus-squarephilodendron@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI hope we get to see two people use the same monkey
minus-squareagent_flounder@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThank you! Finally makes sense.
They added face recognition to the SIM registration process, in an attempt to reduce fraud. (Maybe by limiting or not allowing duplicate faces.) But a monkey face works too, and they are plentiful on the islands, supplying many unique faces.
I hope we get to see two people use the same monkey
Thank you! Finally makes sense.