Samsung Galaxy S5: a retinal scanner to unlock the device?

Did you? There are now programs to crack passwords up to 55 characters.Certainly, it will be long, but it is possible. Future security seems less go through the traditional password ... therefore everything is reinvented.

The safety of future mobile and internet in general will surely through processes that ensure that the person who enters a given account is the person who owns the account. This is already the principle of what is called two-factor authentication: you log in with your password and you must enter a code received by SMS on your mobile phone to access your account. If a hacker has stolen your password, it can not connect to the account without SMS.That takes a lot of problems.
Yes, and if you also steal your laptop? You can begin to wonder if you're not in the middle of a plot and try to remember why this man, in the subway, you put a small package in the pocket there two weeks containing a mysterious SD card . Stop joking and without turning into paranoia, how to secure a smartphone without a code and without it being painful? Apple has made its solution there a few weeks ago with the Touch ID, completely transparent for the user who merely repeats the movement he usually does to unlock a smartphone.
With Android 4.x, Google tried facial recognition. Problem: it is very easy to cheat the system with a photograph of the owner. More serious problem: it takes a few seconds to unlock the device, when the lighting conditions are good and the user always ends up back in the old scheme or unlock code. According to a new rumor , Samsung could have something else for his Galaxy S5: a scanner to another part of the body perfectly single, retina. It would then be possible to unlock the device by simply looking: nothing simpler and more natural. If this is confirmed, it will be imperative for Samsung to provide a fully effective functionality, otherwise it may go quickly to the trash good ideas poorly executed. Give them the benefit of the doubt in case of confirmation.