Everything I read today will be considered as April 1st BS.
Certainly don't speak for everybody, but when you're storing extremely valuable information on your phone you don't want people to be able to go on Facebook and unlock your phone that easily with your picture. If you really want convenience then you should just put no lock on your phone
My iPhone is tied to my DropBox account, my LinkedIn account, my SiriusXM account, Kickstarter, Twitter, etc. I know if my phone were ever lost or stolen that I could remotely lock and wipe it but that would require me to have access to my laptop or another mobile device tied to my AppleID. If my iPhone were ever stolen, there is a pretty good chance it would happen when I was away from home which means the thief might have a couple of hours (or days if I was traveling) alone with my phone before I could get to another device on my account to lock and wipe my iPhone. If the thief were able to get past the lock screen before I was able to lock and wipe the phone, they could do a lot of damage (Identity theft, deleting files from DropBox, etc.). That is why security is such a big deal to some of us. It is not a matter of us "feeling we are too important" it is a matter of risk management, bad guys can do a lot of damage in a matter of minutes if they gain access to a stolen phone that is tied to a lot of services & accounts.
Here in the US, courts have ruled that a police officer can make you put your finger on a finger print scanner to unlock your phone but they cannot make you enter an access code to unlock it (those decisions came from 2 different courts). Based upon the explanation given in the court decisions, the courts would almost certainly put facial recognition & iris scanners in the same category as finger print scanners and allow police officers to force a person to unlock their phones with any biometric type of security. If I were ever stopped by police I would immediately turn my phone off. When it is turned back on it requires me to enter my 6 digit pass code before it can be unlocked via TouchID.
The security of the facial recognition feature on Samsung's new Galaxy S8 smartphone has come into question, after a video was shared online that appears to show one of the handsets being unlocked by waving a photo of the user's face in front of the camera.
The YouTube video embedded below, recorded at the S8 launch event, shows the registered user of the device presenting a picture of himself to the phone's front-facing camera. After a couple of attempts, the phone recognizes the close-up selfie as the user's face, and the lock screen is subsequently bypassed.
Video posted by iDeviceHelp
Last month it was reported that Samsung had decided to add facial recognition to the Galaxy S8 because of late doubts about the speed and reliability of the iris scanning feature also included in phone, so it's possible that the software algorithms still require some fine-tuning. However, it's more likely that Samsung's cameras rely on standard 2D facial recognition technology, which past demonstrations have shown can be easily tricked with two-dimensional photos, suggesting use as a standalone authentication feature remains limited.
Indeed, in a statement given to ArsTechnica, Samsung explained that facial recognition cannot be used to authenticate mobile payments or to access the device's Secure Folder, both of which require the use of the phone's other biometric features.
Apple is said to be including both iris scanning and a facial recognition feature in this year's high-end "iPhone 8" device. The OLED iPhone is rumored to have a "revolutionary" front-facing camera system with infrared 3D sensing capabilities, which may go some way to overcoming the authentication limitations such as those found in Samsung's device. Apple is also thought to be embedding its Touch ID fingerprint technology into a modified Samsung OLED display.
Article Link: Facial Recognition Feature on Galaxy S8 Bypassed Using Just a Photo
