Samsung Wants to Use Iris Scanners in Future Devices

[exfileme]

An iris scanner may arrive on high-end Samsung smartphones.

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[InvalidError]

Iris scanners have the same problem as fingerprints: how do you change your password once it gets compromised?

Fingerprints are inherently weak since we leave them on everything we touch but I imagine eyes would not require a whole lot more effort with today's 40+MP cameras unless Samsung goes out of their way to make sure their iris scanners are scanning the real live thing and not an emulated version of some sort.

 

[Treynolds416]

Kevin, can I ask why you keep using that picture?

 

[dstarr3]

Won't protect against Mystique attacks. Useless.

 

[wg_albany]

"We, as a market leader, are following the market trend."
So, Samsung, are you a leader or a follower?

 

[Guest]

Kevin, can I ask why you keep using that picture?

Same here. The picture is not funny and it is starting to be as annoying as junk email.

 

[SamsChoice]

How about making a better mobile device than just marketing BS.

Samsung has been b slapping Apple since the Galaxy S2. Dream on Otacon72!

Alert to the moderators, KRO2 is Otacon72 who is a highly abusive poster banned under dozens of accounts!

 

[InvalidError]

How about making a better mobile device than just marketing BS.

With the performance and feature levels of today's mid/high-end devices, marketing gimmicks is pretty much the only thing manufacturers have left to convince people who already own one to buy their otherwise only incrementally better devices nearly every year.

 

[wg_albany]

"We, as a market leader, are following the market trend."
So, Samsung, are you a leader or a follower?

 

[danwat1234]

Can the Iris scanner detect when it's near an Intel Iris equipped computer?

 

[WyomingKnott]

Just what we need. Now the bad guys will be ripping out the eyeballs of people who have access to the data they (the bad guys) want.

 

[coolitic]

No person, not even identical twins, has the same eye.

Even your right eye itself is different from the left. Would be very hard and expensive to trick an iris scanner.

 

[InvalidError]

Even your right eye itself is different from the left. Would be very hard and expensive to trick an iris scanner.

Depends on whether their iris scanner is sophisticated enough to tell a live iris apart from a good quality glossy print or other form of simile - many allegedly good fingerprint scanners are vulnerable to high-resolution monochrome laser print reproductions.

Personally, I would not use anything externally visible as a password substitute except for the lowest-security applications... barely more secure than a user-name without password.

 

[ickibar1234]

I wonder if an Iris scanner in a Samsung device would detect if it is looking at a computer with Intel Iris graphics?