Imagine getting your hand wrongly blacklisted as a fake, and then someday down the road you make a wrong gesture during an online interview and now your real-name is also on the suspicion list.
nerdsniper · 2026-06-29 21:37:24 UTC
Imagine you don’t have a hand.
ButlerianJihad · 2026-06-30 02:59:07 UTC
As a Man of Culture, my hand ranks highly among my most valuable appendages!
ragnar76 · 2026-06-29 21:26:38 UTC
What if you don't have a cam or a hand?
outside1234 · 2026-06-30 01:30:49 UTC
SYNTAX ERROR
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smalltorch · 2026-06-29 21:26:56 UTC
I could see this being privacy friendly if the user could see exactly what Google was using.
For instance, terminalcam, gives just enough data to reveal liveness without necessarily giving enough information about identity.
can a unique fingerprint (no pun intended) be extracted from hand geometry
jimmy76615 · 2026-06-29 23:36:40 UTC
Doesn't surprise me at all and seems like a good solution to the problem of human verification. It won't take long for AI to catch up to that, but this captcha method might hold for a couple of months.
Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this. The alternative would be device certificate stuff (ala did Apple sign for this being a proper Apple device?). Having to shake your hand sounds a lot more privacy friendly.
Are you guys seriously worried that Google is gonna steal your secret handshakes?
aix1 · 2026-06-30 04:42:30 UTC
> Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this.
For starters, it's extremely invasive (camera on to pay a bill - wtf?), has unclear privacy implications and questionable accessibility (to put it mildly).
outside1234 · 2026-06-30 01:31:29 UTC
Is it weird that my reaction to all of this is that I am just going to drop these websites when they ask me for this?
Cider9986 · 2026-06-30 02:01:14 UTC
No, but what would you do if it's a government required service?
toxic72 · 2026-06-30 12:00:10 UTC
The IRS wanted a full 3d scan of my face to prove identity AFTER I already had a working account used every year for the past 3+ years.
They asked for feedback after I canceled the login, I gave very candid feedback in a form.
Then they asked if I would give an interview.
You know why I wanted to log in? To claim a $7 refund.
They ended up mailing it.
expedition32 · 2026-06-30 03:17:55 UTC
Oh I wish! Had to solve one in order to pay a bill.
The internet is dead.
MrWiffles · 2026-06-30 17:40:30 UTC
With high resolution cameras, indefinite data retention and third party data leaks being a matter of when, not if, this seems like a perfect way to get your fingerprints stolen by organized crime syndicates worldwide. If not next year, then in 5-10 years. And when they get used for “something”, what happens when you go on vacation somewhere and you’re detained at that country’s border for a crime that happened N years before your very first entry into that country ever happened?
With as many Ph.D.s as there are at Google, you’d think they’d be smarter than to come up with this. Which is how you know the PMs are in charge, not the smart people.
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For instance, terminalcam, gives just enough data to reveal liveness without necessarily giving enough information about identity.
https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/terminalcam
It's interesting the parallels of Google's recaptcha and Cloudflare turnstile.
Cloudflare is free, no image selector, allows VPNs and Tor for the most part, just 0 click with a good ip reputation and 1 click with a bad one.
Recaptcha is paid, trains waymos, sucks millions of hours of human time, asks for camera access, asks for a phone attestation, blocks VPNs/Tor.
Thank god less sites are using ReCAPTCHA.
Looking forward to some other solutions gaining prominence eventually as well.
Like that Anime girl one.
https://m.xkcd.com/2228/
Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this. The alternative would be device certificate stuff (ala did Apple sign for this being a proper Apple device?). Having to shake your hand sounds a lot more privacy friendly. Are you guys seriously worried that Google is gonna steal your secret handshakes?
For starters, it's extremely invasive (camera on to pay a bill - wtf?), has unclear privacy implications and questionable accessibility (to put it mildly).
They asked for feedback after I canceled the login, I gave very candid feedback in a form.
Then they asked if I would give an interview.
You know why I wanted to log in? To claim a $7 refund.
They ended up mailing it.
The internet is dead.
With as many Ph.D.s as there are at Google, you’d think they’d be smarter than to come up with this. Which is how you know the PMs are in charge, not the smart people.