Google Nexus Face Unlock: Trust Face Unlock for Your Cell Phone?

I am contented to unlock my cell phone the old fashion way..............

NOOOOOOO

You mean my 12 yr old nokia.

Several concerns come up to mind

People get lazier and lazier everyday.

My 904SH did that 5 years ago...

Sounds cool, but I personally wouldn't trust it. If it's sensitive enough to keep other people out, then it seems like it would be sensitive enough to keep ME out if I wasn't smiling in quite the same way that day.

I don't trust anything when it comes to cell phones.

Just another way to lose information.

whatever security measures google institutes, someone will figure out how to breech...it's a cat and mouse game

People can have similar facial features, and like with a finger swipe unlock (which we used to have at school on our tablets), there has to be margin for error for the program to search for, or you will never get into your phone again.

weird though, would a picture of the person work?

That is an excellent question!

BOOM.

Mythbusters beat a fingerprint scanner with a photocopy of a finger.

Well like any tech based security measure, the tech has flaws. In the case of fingerprint scanners, they can be beat by photocopies, a wax impressions of the fingerprint, by the cutting off of someone's finger and using it (disgusting but it's been done), or hacking the system and manipulating the files so that your print matches another file and the old match is either matched to someone else or it's erased from the system. Combine that with the fact that tech things have to have a built in margin of error (or they will almost never work or be practiccal) and by the nature of tech they can malfunction in numerous ways (therefore you often have to make a system hypersensative and often have placed in them some type of keyword/manual override to compensate for having to make the system so sensative).

Sounds like a kind of neat idea, but what if I don't want to smile? What If I want to be able to unlock my phone with a scowl?

I haven't heard about this. However, I can guantee that if it is digital, it can be hacked.

I'm wondering about the picture thing too.

I trust NOTHING to do with Google, FB, or any of their affiliates. This keeps up, I might just decide to forsake all technology, just to prove that it isn't necessary for existence.

I don't have a cell phone

Just don't have any dental work.