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Hi! I'm on the train with bad internet right now and so can't go looking but have you considered face recognition software using the laptops camera? There must

Hi! I'm on the train with bad internet right now and so can't go looking but have you considered face recognition software using the laptops camera? There must be an app that takes a look at the webcam when a password challenge is presented. Anyone know of anything? Edit: Found one! https://www.keylemon.com/download-other-versions/ https://www.keylemon.com/download-other-versions/

nicholassmith 13y ago
From what I've read a lot of them can be spoofed with either a printed picture, or a video playing back.
- deleted 13y ago
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- samwillis 13y ago
  It's probably enough for stopping the casual interference the OP wants to prevent.
- chrisfarms 13y ago
  So I guess the next step in the arms-race would be twin cameras (kinect?) to build a 3D image of a face. Then the bad guys would make a sculpture. Then the good guys could add some kind of mannerism detection (smile?, wink?). Then the bad guys would work on latex masks. ....I quite want to see how this evolves tbh.
  - dclowd9901 13y ago
    It's only going to evolve so far for consumer application. At some point, the barrier to cracking becomes too high for normal efforts. Who's going to spend 4-6 hours applying makeup to their face to crack your laptop's security (since the crack only applies to one instance) if you're only protecting your weird porn and some household financial data. You likely wouldn't hear about any efforts beyond that, since it would be spycraft.
  - guizzy 13y ago
    Cloning. The end-game is cloning.
    - davidradcliffe 13y ago
      Not really, because it could require a combo of physical attributes and information known by the subject.
      - luke-stanley 13y ago
        Age accelerated face cloning and spying to get information and iris or other samples needed?
  - lessnonymous 13y ago
    Totally off topic, but why don't laptops come with twin cameras already?!?!?
- Simple1234 13y ago
  He said he's not looking for high level security. Just something basic to "keep honest people honest".
- jbkkd 13y ago
  I've used KeyLemon before on my computer. Removed it the day a friend of mine unlocked it with his face(he looks quite different).
mef 13y ago
Couldn't someone hold up a picture of the OP's face to the camera to bypass this?
- blairbeckwith 13y ago
  I'm not sure if any desktop software does this, but (some?) Android devices can optionally require a blink to unlock with facial recognition.
escapologybb 13y ago
This is an excellent idea, and something I've tried but that particular application wouldn't recognise my face as I tend to lean to one side. But my leaning isn't reliable so it had had real trouble recognising me, not ideal if I'm trying to get into my computer :-) Reliable facial recognition would be great though, just not managed to find it!
josephjrobison 13y ago
Are their any technologies out there that can sense your body heat as well as facial recognition? I don't know if there are any commercially available applications of this but here's an interesting delve into evolving facial recognition into thermal recognition: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/17173/InTech-Thermal_infrared_face_recognition_a_biometric_identification_technique_for_robust_security_system.pdf http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/17173/InTech-Thermal_infrared...

nicholassmith 13y ago

From what I've read a lot of them can be spoofed with either a printed picture, or a video playing back.

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samwillis 13y ago
It's probably enough for stopping the casual interference the OP wants to prevent.
chrisfarms 13y ago
So I guess the next step in the arms-race would be twin cameras (kinect?) to build a 3D image of a face. Then the bad guys would make a sculpture. Then the good guys could add some kind of mannerism detection (smile?, wink?). Then the bad guys would work on latex masks. ....I quite want to see how this evolves tbh.
- dclowd9901 13y ago
  It's only going to evolve so far for consumer application. At some point, the barrier to cracking becomes too high for normal efforts. Who's going to spend 4-6 hours applying makeup to their face to crack your laptop's security (since the crack only applies to one instance) if you're only protecting your weird porn and some household financial data. You likely wouldn't hear about any efforts beyond that, since it would be spycraft.
- guizzy 13y ago
  Cloning. The end-game is cloning.
  - davidradcliffe 13y ago
    Not really, because it could require a combo of physical attributes and information known by the subject.
    - luke-stanley 13y ago
      Age accelerated face cloning and spying to get information and iris or other samples needed?
- lessnonymous 13y ago
  Totally off topic, but why don't laptops come with twin cameras already?!?!?
Simple1234 13y ago
He said he's not looking for high level security. Just something basic to "keep honest people honest".
jbkkd 13y ago
I've used KeyLemon before on my computer. Removed it the day a friend of mine unlocked it with his face(he looks quite different).

mef 13y ago

Couldn't someone hold up a picture of the OP's face to the camera to bypass this?

blairbeckwith 13y ago
I'm not sure if any desktop software does this, but (some?) Android devices can optionally require a blink to unlock with facial recognition.

escapologybb 13y ago

This is an excellent idea, and something I've tried but that particular application wouldn't recognise my face as I tend to lean to one side. But my leaning isn't reliable so it had had real trouble recognising me, not ideal if I'm trying to get into my computer :-) Reliable facial recognition would be great though, just not managed to find it!

josephjrobison 13y ago

Are their any technologies out there that can sense your body heat as well as facial recognition? I don't know if there are any commercially available applications of this but here's an interesting delve into evolving facial recognition into thermal recognition: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/17173/InTech-Thermal_infrared_face_recognition_a_biometric_identification_technique_for_robust_security_system.pdf http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/17173/InTech-Thermal_infrared...