Security exploits affecting Android 4 also face a picture ID

Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android can open the device using face recognition.Blogger also argues that she satisfied with the photo face detection


Version 4 of the Android mobile operating system from Google, called Ice Cream Sandwich, boasts a number of new features. One of them is the ability to unlock the device not only by entering a passcode, but also by face recognition. The user places the device in his face, and then the device can recognize and open the lock.
Developer and blogger named Koshik Dutta found that the operating system, announced last month and is expected to be available soon, should not necessarily the man himself in front of her - she is content with his photograph. Dutta brought the video (see end of report) he demonstrates how he poses a different instrument Nexus Galaxy (Galaxy Knott) with a picture. Galaxy Nexus identifies the image on the second device and opened unlocked.This man's statement against Google Tim Bray at the launch of Galaxy Nexus in Hong Kong last month, stating that the device could handle image to be shown instead of a face and not fall into the trap.
Dutta states that had run the Nexus will recognize the true face and not programmed it to identify a picture - but there is no way to know if it was true. Because experience Samsung's event was filmed with a number of people - Dutta call them to testify that the device actually programmed the way he says. In any case, because even the new version of the operating system and Nexus device has not yet been rolled out and are in beta phase - we can assume that Google will correct the problem, probably after the release of the movie he won Dutta.