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Lenovo Trying Face Recognition For Logins On New Laptops
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."
My mid-90s 180MHz Compaq desktop did this before all of them.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I think that something like that was tried in the past, and a picture of the owner of the PC was a good trick to bypass the security and unlock the PC. How they will avoid this kind of trick?
So, what's to prevent people from holding up a photo of an 'authorized user'. It's not like a 1.5mp camera would be able to judge depth. It's a good IDEA, but it's not likely to implement well. The tech's just not there at the consumer level. Just my $.02