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LG Announces G8 ThinQ Smartphone That Uses 'Advanced Palm Vein Authentication' Tech To Unlock (techcrunch.com)
LG's flagship G8 smartphone has been officially launched today, bringing many expected features that were teased over the past few months and several not-so-expected features. One such unusual feature in the G8 is its palm vein recognition, dubbed Hand ID, which LG claims is the first to offer this capability. TechCrunch reports: From the company's press materials, "LG's Hand ID identifies owners by recognizing the shape, thickness and other individual characteristics of the veins in the palms of their hands." It turns out, like faces and fingerprints, everyone's got a unique set of hand veins, so once registered, you can just however your hot blue blood tubes over the handset to quickly unlock in a few seconds. The Z camera also does depth-sensing face unlock that's a lot harder to spoof than the kind found on other Android handsets. LG's also put the tech to use for a set of Air Motion gestures, which allow for hands-free interaction with various apps like the camera (selfies) and music (volume control). Other features of the G8 include a 6.1-inch QHD+ "Crystal Sound OLED" display that uses the screen as an audio amplifier. There's a Snapdragon 855 processor with 6GB of RAM and 128GB internal storage, three cameras on the rear including a 16-megapixel Super Wide (F1.9), 12-megapixel Standard (F1.5), and 12-megapixel Telephoto (F2.4), a 3,500mAh battery that charges via USB-C, a headphone jack, and 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC.
I believe you meant screen as audio transducer... At least it keeps the headphone jack!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
because he masturbated the veins away on his right hand
I have an LG X Venture presently, and it's been a decent phone; though the intrusiveness of ANDROID asking me if I like a place I just visited seems to be a strange invasion of privacy. My son telling me to turn off the location services is an interesting fix, but then I hear that my location is intuited nonetheless by cell tower triangulation. I truly wish some OS would emerge that I could PAY FOR that would leave my privacy intact.
I look forward to lifeline analytics, so that the phone can send out texts if it thinks you are in peril that day.
I wonder how unique palm prints are, never have seen studies on that...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I truly wish some OS would emerge that I could PAY FOR that would leave my privacy intact.
In what way does an iPhone not meet that criteria.
You can turn off location and know an app is not getting your location (from cell tower or otherwise, it can still do some determination based on IP address of the phone, but you can use a VPN to work around that).
You certainly will never be asked if you like a location looking it up in Apple Maps...
And of course since Apple makes money from the phones and not you, Apple is not getting any data you do not want them to have.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
BioMetrics is not a valid identity or security mechanism and will never be. Machines are not perfect, neither are you, and you could lose access to your devices if your bio-metrics change. Health problems, scraps, cuts, bruises, or even worse a lopped off limb could get you locked out of you device. Not only that but the technology to scan and learn you bio-metrics is the same technology to be used to store that data and use it in a replay. As seen in other cheap tricks like unlocking them with pictures. Yes, they will try to secure that further but at the end of the day, every part of your body can be replicated with impressive detail if someone wants to bad enough and the more and more this technology matures the more and more people will understand the feeling to being betrayed by their own security implementations.
I am sorry dave... but I can't let you ... o wait... Hello Master Key what do you want me to do?
Predictably boring to the last. Wow you have no life.
You know nothing about security iKendall, sorry
Has anyone else seen LG firmware update failures just past warrantee? I have and am no longer a fan of that company.
BioMetrics is not a valid identity or security mechanism and will never be.
Literally hundreds of millions of people already use it every day.
you could lose access to your devices if your bio-metrics change.
All mobile devices that support biometrics allow for PIN entry if the biometric will not work.
even worse a lopped off limb could get you locked out of you device.
If you lopped off all my limbs I could still use my nose to enter a PIN.
Not only that but the technology to scan and learn you bio-metrics is the same technology to be used to store that data and use it in a replay.
You know nothing Jon Snow.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
the developed world is officially fiddling while Earth burns. Really, why do we need all this new gee-whiz shit, other than to one-up each other while we anesthetize ourselves against the failure of the old gee-whiz shit to give our lives meaning and purpose?
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
You know nothing about security iKendall, sorry
One time I REALLY had to GO to the BATHROOM so very BAD! So I just JUMPED into the bathroom! And I saw my DAD and he was all NAKED! I got really turned ON by seeing another COCK and ever since THEN I became a FUCKED UP individual with a SUPERIORITY COMPLEX because no matter how WRONG I obviously am ALL THE TIME I still declare that I am the WINNER even though I can't TELL you what I WON. Then I DICKED AROUND (tee hee) with Visual Basic and DELPHI and write a SUPER ADVANCED string manipulation PROGRAM for writing out a text file called HOSTS and ever since THEN that makes me so much BETTER and definitely SMARTER than EVERYONE ELSE and anybody who doesn't AGREE is just automatically WRONG and I scire AT LEAST TEN POINTS because I'm just SO COOL and the fact that everybody HATES ME is just proof of my AWESOMENESS and that's my STORY.
P.S. Anybody who disagrees with this is just another IMPERSONATOR or somebody I've had some kind of GAY FEUD with, even though they're probably not, because that COMFORTS my fragile SANITY. I simply MUST BELIEVE in my own GREATNESS or else it all FALLS APART. It is a FRAGILE BALANCE you know. People LIKE ME, people ADMIRE ME, people want to BE LIKE ME, beacuse my text file manipulation program is SO VERY GREAT, and EVERYONE admires it! EVERYONE wants ti to be their SINGLE ONLY security solution, so POWERFUL it is! So PURE Is the belief of my RELIGIOUS FAITH! Hosts be BLESSED, Amen! All others are HEATHENS! Do you all LOVE ME yet? Please just LOVE ME! If you don't, I'll spam you some more until you DO!
P.P.S. I could create an account ANYTIME I WANT but then pesky things happen like POSTING LIMITS and I wouldn't get toe CRY ABOUT "impersonators" and get loads of juicy ATTENTION for that, so that's a definite NO-GO. I'll continue to IGNORE the really OBVIOUS SOLUTION to the perceived PROBLEM. Just like I like to IGNORE MY THERAPIST!
-- APK
Did you know that when you set up a new Android phone, you can use your dick on the fingerprint reader and then you'll have to whip out your dick every time you want to use your phone?
Don't ask me how I know that, but let me just say that HR was not amused.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Well it's good then the topic is privacy and not security... perhaps you should try at least a little to keep up with the discussion at hand before posting?
You just fed a troll. You do that a lot. Are you some kind of nígger breeder? Because feeding them is how they breed. Only a stupid nígger would see fit to breed fellow níggers. You already are a troll magnet. Isn't that enough for your nígger ego? You fucking nígger.
Where do people put their phones? Mine's in my pocket. I've never used any of the locking options. I don't really know what they're for.
See subject: It's all that needs saying about you as you IMPERSONATE me - You've got serious issues.
* Grow up, get over it & your "StRaNgE" obssession you have w/ me, ok & LAY OFF THE DRUGS!
APK
P.S.=> HOWEVER: Even your "paper rose" INFERIOR imitation of me is flattery - imitation IS the SINCEREST form of FLATTERY (& the proof you WISH you were ME, lol)... apk
See subject. APKuck is too afraid of my skills to every come back to /.
ZIP
P.S. => he's been utterly defeated by me(ZIP) and is now only a shell of a man.
You say making an account's something I should do - why? You don't hypocrite STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous.
* See subject: & answer to your last question = why. I won't release my code to have a malicious copy out there & that's that.
(I answer questions so well facts in my answers tend to make you EAT YOUR WORDS & having good manners @ least on your part (lol) you don't TALK while you EAT YOUR WORDS, lmao!)
APK
P.S.=> Now, go Make a Wheel (like I have that 100's of 1,000's worldwide use that works doing more for less vs. ANY single other 'solution', natively) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... - until YOU do? You're proving again, to be a hypocrite & BLOWHARD/all talk - no action = YOU... apk
That does not make the tech valid.
Since it works, it does indeed make it valid. Perhaps you mean some other word.
even though a little thought tells you that it's a bad idea.
With even more thought you realize it's a very good idea indeed that most people have protection at all, which they generally did not before biometrics made it somewhat tolerable to have a passcode on your phone.
it just means lots of people are being stupid.
No, just a handful of biometric deniers...
Interesting variation on a rubber hose attack.
99.9999999999999% of people will have no security if it takes any work at all to bypass.
Even fewer have anything of true value stored on mobile devices that it really matters in the long run.
Your sense of what works and what is even needing protection is utterly whack.
I'll let you have the last word, because JFC.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"you can just however your hot blue blood tubes over the handset to quickly unlock"
Hmmm. I must learn to "however".
See subject: It could happen to me. I won't let it. I stop it by not opening my source so it cannot happen period. It works.
APK
P.S.=> My way is truly THE ultimate way & it works... apk
Until your phone is legally untouchable by governmental bodies, why would it matter that you've got some super secure biometric system?
A simple pin keeps out 99 percent of plebs and shipping women.
This weird biometric data giveaway is just creepy and unnecessary.
See subject: Instead of you STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anon posts try Make a Wheel as I have https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... that 200,000++ users worldwide use & DOZENS of /.ers like/use/praise since it gains users more speed/security/reliability & even more anonymity (vs. DNS requestlog tracking + stalling 3rd party tracking scripts FASTER than NoScript & operating beforehand in FASTER/more cpu serviced kernelmode as part of the IP stack itself in hosts vs. "Bolt-on-'MoAr'" ILLOGIC-LOGIC)?
* It's because YOU PROJECT you lack the SKILLS to create anything GOOD that others like/use/praise as I have is why... lol!
(See subject - your FALSE accusation directed @ ME is another projection of your OWN issues onto me also again - you're the one STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous & NOTHING GOOD TO SHOW FOR YOURSELF (but I can easily) you've ever done (which is ZERO)).
APK
P.S.=> You should just admit that your province in life is to be a BLOWHARD "ne'er-do-well" CHATTERING TWAT (lol) online STALKING others by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous as you do me - some "accomplishment" for you, lol (not)... apk
Where as before, all I had to do was worry about the NSA chopping off a single finger. Now, I have to fear my entire hand being severed in order to unlock my phone and read all my secrets (which are already known by Facebook).
***
All that said, I absolutely love my LG V20. Best cell phone I have ever owned: USB Type-C, Removable Battery, Slick thin metal case, microSD card, and the least problems of ANY smartphone I've owned (much less problems than either my iPhone or Samsung Galaxy's).
I got used to see the Chaos Computer Club breaking biometric authentication; I wonder if they will break that one as well.
I am wandering... Do people buy LG Phones?