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Turning a Smartphone Display Into a Biometric Scanner
New submitter jan_jes writes: Recent mobile phones integrate fingerprint scanners to authenticate users biometrically and replace passwords, making authentication more convenient. Researchers at Yahoo Labs have created a new technology called "Bodyprint," which turns your smartphone's touchscreen display into a biometric scanner. It allows the touch sensor to scan users' body parts (PDF) such as ears, fingers, fists, and palms by pressing them against the display. Bodyprint implements the four-eye principle for locking sensitive documents — accessing the document can require the presence of two or more people involved with the project. Another application is authenticating a user to answer a call by scanning their ear pressed against the phone.
Not that losers need another reason to whip it out, but this has potential for demanding proof of all those '11" uncut' claims.
I forget what 8 was for.
Shouldn't a four-eye principle require two ordinary people or one person with glasses? (Contact lenses obviously don't count.)
(As a side note, it's hard to believe that was ever really a slur).
Yeah, but the difference is that a 2-letter password can be cracked by a single person. With this biometric thing, you have to go find 200 different people to press the phone up to their ears.