Your smartphone next screen reads your fingerprint (video):It's no secret that smartphone security is a joke. Most users have either no password or they have a single line pattern that is easy to guess. Even alphanumeric passwords are not as difficult to solve. Enter the fingerprint reader. Apple recently purchased the division AuthenTec Embedded Security for biometric connections are offered for the iPhone. Now Validity Sensors, a company that provides fingerprint reader for mobile makers like Hewlett Packard, wants to bring its technology to Android and other smartphones.
At CES last week, technical director of the validity of the dough marketing VARGHA unveiled a Samsung Android phone that is specifically adapted to a fingerprint sensor under the glass to take. In just one stroke, VARGHA able to connect to the Android phone.Not only does it provide a simple user experience, [but] it's also high security, "he says." It is easy to hack a four-digit PIN code, but a fingerprint of you and you alone. '
VARGHA explained that the fingerprint authentication, which Validity called "natural link" will not only be used to connect to a device, but also for e-commerce transactions to validate. So, even after the phone is unlocked, you must re-authenticate with a purchase or transfer of money from a bank to confirm. Eventually security in the bank or in a store, but leave your finger again to help further reduce fraud.
Besides placing the sensor glass front of the phone, the validity also activate a button in the hardware ingerprint reader. So if your pne has a touch big house like that found on the LG Optimus L9, this button can be used as a sensor.Validity has not yet announced the mobile partners, but the company hopes to begin to integrate the technology into high-level smartphones in the near future.
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