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I would love to help build something if you can't find a solution. Maybe you could lock or unlock your laptop via facial recognition [1], or you could add an ac

I would love to help build something if you can't find a solution. Maybe you could lock or unlock your laptop via facial recognition [1], or you could add an accelerometer that automatically locks the laptop if someone picks it up. Or just physically lock the laptop to your chair. Or you could plug an Arduino into the USB port and use it as a keyboard device to send a stream of keypresses when you touch a button (just like a yubikey, except you could put the button anywhere.) The first button press could type in a password to unlock the computer, and the second button press could press a keyboard shortcut to lock it again. Or you could program it to recognize a simple morse code sequence. Let me know if you're interested in that idea, and I would be happy to program one and mail it to you. [1]: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36762/keylemon https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36762/keylemon

escapologybb 13y ago
I would love to build something, my programming skills are to put it mildly… well… Rubbish, but if you were willing to help that would be wonderful! I really like the idea of using the accelerometer as one layer of security, because there is no situation where I'm going to be the one who's picking up my laptop! I think it could only be one part of the overall though, because if they don't pick it up it would still be completely open. I've tried facial recognition software, including the one you linked to but so far haven't found one that is reliable enough; there were far too many false positives and for a large chunk of the time it wouldn't recognise my face at all. In theory though, reliable face recognition would be a great solution.