Your Face is Your Password!
First it’s text, then it’s fingerprints. Now it’s your face!
Secured access to notebooks used to be just using passwords. In recent years, certain brands of notebook began introducing biometic fingerprints security. Now, it’s using your face.
FTEC Systems Sdn Bhd in collaboration with RC Group Holdings Ltd will provide notebook users with face-recognition technology for login access. It is claimed that this technology is superior to conventional password login systems.
How it works? Well, you will need a webcam and obviously your face. What is does is that it will capture the user’s facial features and then compared it to a saved template.
I can already see the flaws in this technology. First of all, what’s stopping me from putting a user’s portrait in front of the camera? Will it be able to tell the difference between a real face and a picture?
Also, consider this scenario; If I have already set up the security system and then I had an accident and scarred my face. Or someone punched me and my face got bloated. What happens then?
In an extreme (and exaggerated) scenerio, if the bad guys wanted the data from the notebook bad enough, they might cut off my fingers or gorge out my eye to access the data depending on the type of security system I used. So in this case, will they cut off my head?!
It will be interesting to see how they’re going to market this.
Full story here.
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:02 am
That would be freaky. Still it’s better than the rectal scan they have here at work. I thought they said “retinal” scan. My mistake, I suppose…