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Originally Posted by wannabee
Couldn't you hold up a life size photograph of the owner's face?
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Interestingly, it looks like a photo on a smartphone fools it:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57...ce-based-lock/
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A video demonstration created by mobile blog SoyaCincau shows that the Face Unlock feature can be fooled by showing it a mere image of the face used to set up the locking mechanism.
Given the video demo, it's unclear why a Googler would have suggested recently that using a photo would not open up a device protected with Face Unlock. Last month, Koushik Dutta, a developer of the Android after-market firmware replacement CyanogenMod, tweeted: "The face recognition unlock thing is really easily hackable. Show it a photo."
In response, Tim Bray, who is on the Android team, tweeted: "Nope. Give us some credit."
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But you still need a photo of the owner's face-something that a casual thief probably won't have.