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From what I've read a lot of them can be spoofed with either a printed picture, or a video playing back.

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It's probably enough for stopping the casual interference the OP wants to prevent.

So I guess the next step in the arms-race would be twin cameras (kinect?) to build a 3D image of a face.

Then the bad guys would make a sculpture.

Then the good guys could add some kind of mannerism detection (smile?, wink?).

Then the bad guys would work on latex masks.

....I quite want to see how this evolves tbh.

It's only going to evolve so far for consumer application. At some point, the barrier to cracking becomes too high for normal efforts. Who's going to spend 4-6 hours applying makeup to their face to crack your laptop's security (since the crack only applies to one instance) if you're only protecting your weird porn and some household financial data. You likely wouldn't hear about any efforts beyond that, since it would be spycraft.

Cloning. The end-game is cloning.

Not really, because it could require a combo of physical attributes and information known by the subject.

Age accelerated face cloning and spying to get information and iris or other samples needed?

Totally off topic, but why don't laptops come with twin cameras already?!?!?

I've used KeyLemon before on my computer.

Removed it the day a friend of mine unlocked it with his face(he looks quite different).

He said he's not looking for high level security. Just something basic to "keep honest people honest".

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