When Google announced the Galaxy Nexus running on Ice Cream Sandwich last year, one of its fancy features is the Face unlock. But we discovered that you can actually trick the lock screen by putting a picture of the registered face in front of the device. The reason we said that it's just an added feature is because you’d have to manually and separately set it up from the Face Unlock. This means you can still go for the basic and less secure face unlock or you can add more protection by switching on the Liveness Check. But as early as now, we’ve already came up with a cunning way to trick this “added security feature†by placing another device while it's playing a recorded clip of the registered face while blinking. Facebook is launching a new game, Your Profile, Your Home where users can build their own virtual home on Facebook and learn how to personalize their account based on their preferences. Through the game users can learn more about the settings of Facebook such as Privacy settings, Advertiser preferences, and security settings. Through Your Profile, Your Home, Facebook hopes that users will have an easy way to find out just how safe and secure their profiles are. Read more in our articles including "Face Unlock feature on Android 4.1 becomes smarter" and "Facebook launches Your Profile, Your Home game".
When Google announced the Galaxy Nexus running on Ice Cream Sandwich last year, one of its fancy features is the Face unlock. But we discovered that you can actually trick the lock screen by putting a picture of the registered face in front of the device.
The reason we said that it's just an added feature is because you’d have to manually and separately set it up from the Face Unlock. This means you can still go for the basic and less secure face unlock or you can add more protection by switching on the Liveness Check. But as early as now, we’ve already came up with a cunning way to trick this “added security feature†by placing another device while it's playing a recorded clip of the registered face while blinking.
Our coverage of face detection includes: "Face Unlock feature on Android 4.1 becomes smarter"; "Facebook launches Your Profile, Your Home game"; "Adobe unveils New Creative Cloud Innovations for Creators". Each article provides unique insights and information.