UI security topic: UI for private activities

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Wed Jan 18 12:28:13 UTC 2012


On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 13:14:48 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > Or what about using the camera? Most tablets and smartphones have one, so
> > why not using it for biometrical
> > authentication, like iris recognition?
> 
> Not sure webcam is powerful enough to do a proper image of the iris.
> And, for normal cameras, I guess it would be dead easy to have a photo
> printout accepted instead of a real eye.

Android 4 has this face recognition feature, and it's quite embarrassing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwfYSR7HttA
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