Android’s New Face Unlock Feature Fooled by a Picture

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich looks pretty dependable . It ’s get a bunch of newfangled features , like an update look , meliorate presentment , and an awful web internet browser . Oh , and anyone witha picture of your face might be capable to unlock your phone . Uhhh , guy rope ?

TheSoyaCincau blogput the new Face Unlock characteristic of ICS to the test at a recent Samsung event , and it was crack jolly easily by a delineation of the user ’s facial expression on another phone . The author claim that he programmed the curl to acknowledge his actual aspect , not the exposure on the other phone , and after a few tries , viola — unlocked Galaxy Nexus .

At the clip of its announcement , a portion of folks were murmuring that something like this would be possible , but TheNext Web notesthat Android - focused Developer Advocate Tim Bray settle everyone ’s concerns by saying it would n’t . Now , um . We ’ll let you know if Google has anything to say about the video ; and of course , ICS is n’t even out yet , so there ’s still clip to piece a fix if something ’s haywire . But for the moment , overjealous swain and girlfriend everywhere have something to fete . [ soyacincuatvviaHuffPo , The Next Web ]