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Galaxy Note 7 Iris Scanner Explained (androidauthority.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Android Authority: The Galaxy Note 7 was just announced and one of the most intriguing features is its iris scanner. Android Authority has a report explaining how it works: "According to the company, the device stores your registered iris information as an encrypted code safely in its hardware using its KNOX security platform. Whenever you want to access content, such as a protected app, the device first captures your iris pattern for recognition, extracts and digitizes it, and then proceeds to match it with the encrypted code to provide access. You can be sure that no one else apart from you can access your device in case it is stolen or lost because the Note 7 registers the iris information of only one person. Samsung has made all this possible by including a dedicated iris camera for recognizing the composition of the user's eyeballs. The dedicated iris camera uses a special image filter to receive and recognize the reflected images of the irises through an infrared light on the other end of that panel. The light emitted from the Galaxy Note 7's display allows the scanner to receive data even in low light environments." The iris scanner can be used to access private information via Samsung's Secure Folder feature. Samsung also plans to partner with major financial institutions to incorporate its iris scanner into mobile banking applications.
wink wink
It's like we are sending this information to anyone else.
Oop.
until Apple invents this technology and releases the first smartphone with an iris scanner in 2018
Evil villain lances President Trump's left eye using a barbecue fork then detonates nuclear arsenal using iris scan.
I give it a week before someone beats it with a hi res photo.
With remaining eye.
So instead of having a shared family phone, we'd have to buy one for every member. Great for Samsung, but bad for me, so then bad for Samsung.
You need to cleanly scoop around the eyeball, but still have enough cutting edge to sever the optic nerve bundle as you remove it from the socket.
Don't worry, you'll probably be able to fall back to using your secure password.
You know, the thing that look like base64-encodednoise from /dev/random... that you've completely forgotten about because you've always used the iris function right up until the bd conjunctivitis that started this morning.
Or the long password which is basically just two words followed by a number and even a "!" For good measure (hey, they asked to use a special). You know it's a good one because the 3 websites where you use it showed you a green bar in their security meter.
(What you don't know, is that 2 of these website got their DB hacked, they only used salted SHA-1 (hey, but it's salted) and your password is among the 75% of the million hash leak that got bruteforced within the first 2 days, because it's such a common pattern)
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No, thank you.
Soon won't be able to buy or sell anything without it.
I don't think this will last because it's slower than a good fingerprint scanner.
I still wish it had a 7500 battery but I'll take it. It at least has an SD card slot. I still will wait 6 months for the price drop. But it beats the 4 finally.
the article reads like a barely disguised, PR buzzword filled press release:
"the device first captures your iris pattern for recognition, extracts and digitizes it, and then proceeds to match it with the encrypted code to provide access."
maybe the technology is interesting, but i wouldn't wager on it based on anything with this level of buzznoise-to-content ratio.
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde)
That is, does it require a live eyeball that has not been forcibly removed from its socket?
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
So how does a photo of an iris not defeat this? Selfies!
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I can't believe that Zerolemon won't have a battery case that will last several days within a month or two of release. Replaceable batteries are nice, but portable chargers are getting more common and more compact, and with those you don't have to completely shut the phone down and reboot to swap in a new battery. That's one of the things LG definitely got wrong with their G5 battery - a 20mAh internal cell to allow "hot-swapping" would have been a killer feature.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Screw having to try and pass a law that requires people to scan their eyes and have them documented, we'll just include them on phones and people will use them as a cool feature!
I'm sure in their terms of use they're allowed to store your retina scan, but promise not to do even with it, even though nothing legally stops them.
So my galaxy 7 doesn't have the iris scanner. So Now I must take it out on the driveway and stomp on it and go spend another 650 enslave myself to another 2 year contract so I can have the Iris scanner. March on Consumer Bot to the land of planned obsolescence. I don't think I'll drink the kool-aid anymore.
security and surveillance gear gets better and better. even now it is good enough to capture high resolution fingerprints, facial features for automated facial rec, walking gaits, audio for voice recognition; and if camera equipment is appropriately placed (store entrances and point-of-sale, transit information signs, dmv photos, etc).. can easily capture iris and even retina scans.
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My twin brother is not amused.
From now on, take a nice sharp spoon with you when you go out stealing phones!
No, it's a security problem. I think I'll keep my biometric data off the interwebs for now.
At least I can change a password.
As my eyes will be all red, I won't drunk dial my ex.
(It is a joke, I don't have an ex. They are all still with me. In my basement.)
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
You can be sure that no one else apart from you can access your device in case it is stolen or lost because the Note 7 registers the iris information of only one person.
Only allowing one set of eyeballs is not the only way to "ensure" this. If you only want yourself to be able to unlock your phone then just program it with your eyeballs only. But why prevent people that want to allow multiple people to use a phone from adding another set of eyeballs. I want my kids to be able to use my phone at without me having to have my eyeballs scanned.
Just like with fingerprint readers, you can be compelled by authorities to provide this in order to unlock your device. Whereas a password, that can be forgotten, is not subject to the same rules.
Haha, when I worked at Samsung couple years ago, I pitched this very idea on their internal idea sharing thing. Shot down next day as not enough added value.
So my galaxy 7 doesn't have the iris scanner. So Now I must take it out on the driveway and stomp on it and go spend another 650 enslave myself to another 2 year contract so I can have the Iris scanner. March on Consumer Bot to the land of planned obsolescence. I don't think I'll drink the kool-aid anymore.
Remember, this is the company that created over FIFTY "new" phone models in ONE YEAR, FFS!!!
So, just wait another few microseconds, and it will be superceded with an even more newer-est model...
This is like the only ID left you morons haven't given up. Are you ready to beat their asses to pulp yet though?
You store your iris scans, it gets shared internationally by moles. That is the whole use of it.
Galaxy Note? Samsung. Samsung? US Government cooperation. See how happy Obama is with his new Samsung all over the news recently too. "it is sooo secure"
stores your registered iris information as an encrypted code safely in its hardware using its KNOX security platform.
LOL. Retards never learn.
Just write your password down and keep it at home somewhere.
Which is 100% guaranteed to be the exact place you'll be when the allergy kicks-in (doktor's tip: usually most of the seasonal allergies happen outdoor. There are very few allergen that vary seasonally found indoor) or any of the other problems that can render your iris suddenly unusable.
Or keep it in your password manager.
I just hope for you that yours isn't *in* said protected smartphone (though it's a good choice: it's something that you carry around)
But on your laptop. Or securely synced over the cloud to most of your computers.
If someone steals your phone, even the cops, they won't have that password.
No, but both can already have a copy of your iris.
For thieves, it's simply called "a not too blurry photo of your face"
(Common, who are you kidding? Most cheap fingerprint readers can be defeated simply by scotch tape. And the protection added against such exploit can simply be circumvented by heating the scotch tape.
Do you really think that mass produced Iris scanner - a.k.a. the cheapest infrared camera they can get their hand on - is going to be *that* good ? propably heating a bit a blck-and-white hires laser print of somebody's iris is all it's going to take...)
For cops, its holding "your eyes forcibly open while holding your phone in front of your face".
(Hey, you didn't answer any question, you didn't even communicate : it's not violating your fifth amendment any more that taking your fingerprints / your DNA sample is)
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