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Lenovo Trying Face Recognition For Logins On New Laptops

Posted by Soulskill on from the careful-about-shaving-that-beard dept.

judgecorp writes "Lenovo's new IdeaPads will be using face recognition as a way to replace passwords for users logging onto the laptops. 'Lenovo's VeriFace combines the Windows login and file encryption to password-protect individual files. It identifies users by matching unique features of their faces to photographs taken by the 1.3-megapixel webcam built into the laptop. When Windows users start up their PCs, a camera window pops up in the login frame. The user then just has to adjust their position so their face appears in the window, and VeriFace logs them in automatically.' That could be good, but is the technology really ready for mass market devices? HP ran into trouble when its face recognition software had trouble recognizing people with darker skin."

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  1. Ehmmm... Photo? by Ecuador · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I can just grab a photo of the user whose PC I want to log onto and show it to the cam?
    Much easier to crack than that darn retinal scan that requires me to get the eyeballs of my victim...

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    1. Re:Ehmmm... Photo? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah. What a PITA. Now you have to take their whole head.

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  2. But will it recognize your expression and auto- by cavehobbit · · Score: 2, Funny

    -complete to teenSchoolgirlsInIceCream.fap?

  3. Re:Easy to defeat by garcia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, here I thought I just had to fire up http://thehun.com/ and show them one of those facials. Thanks for setting me straight!

  4. Re:Face recognition using just a webcam? by wtmoose · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about requiring the user to depress a preselected sequence of keys with their nose?

  5. Re:Fool it with a picture? by witherstaff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else getting flashbacks from the Space Quest games? I remember you had to photocopy a painting to get past a facial recognition scanner...

  6. great by circletimessquare · · Score: 2, Funny

    now instead of scalping someone's finger to access their stuff, now i have to pull a hannibal lecter

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  7. Fingerprints by transami · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the hell happened to fingerprint scanners? I thought they'd be on every keyboard by now and we'd be passed all this password crap.

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  8. Re:Who the hell would trust this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh yeah!

    I ran it on an overclocked dildo that your mom gave me! It did EXACTLY THIS - Orifice-recognition as a password.