Android 4.0 can be unlocked with a photo
Google will have to continue working on the security of its latest version of Android: Android 4.0. And, in addition to being able to unlock in the usual way (by sliding your finger on the screen following a sequence), Android 4.0 also allows you to unlock the advanced terminal -in this case the Samsung Galaxy Nexus-, with facial recognition.
What does this mean? Well, supposedly, the terminal, using its front camera with which you can make video calls, will be able to unlock the smartphone when its owner stands in front of it and the mobile makes a scan of his face. In this way, anyone outside the team will be unable to use it.
However, a problem has been found. And, as has been demonstrated in this video, the terminal recognizes not only the individual, but if anyone stands in front of the camera mobile a photograph of the owner - provided that it has good quality-, the terminal end unlocking.
The author of the video comments that he has programmed Samsung Galaxy Nexus to recognize his face and has never used a photograph to set up the facial recognition unlocking system. In addition, to carry out the experiment, the photograph taken from a Samsung Galaxy Note, the hybrid between advanced mobile and tablet, has been used.
At the moment, Google has not commented on this video. Furthermore, we must remember that MatÃas Duarte (Android Experience Director) showed the new features of the Google platform, a facial recognition test was carried out and it was unsuccessful. So it is to be expected that some details of this new security system carried to next-generation mobile phones still needed to be polished.
