Your four digit pin or your lock pattern just doesn’t seem to be safe enough. The Android 5.0 Lollipop skips the traditional lock system. The lock system that uses facial recognition.
This facial recognition system tries to ensure that it is actually you
who are unlocking your device. It also looks on to see if you are
connected to a Trusted Device may
be a Bluetooth device specifically for this purpose. Google has taken
steps to adding a new smart lock. The lock system that we have been
looking into for quite sometime. Trusted Voice which makes use of voice recognition to check your identity and then authorise you to use the device. When Google Play Services 7.0 came out, there was a partial support for Trusted Voice.
It was pretty obvious that the option was to let users to unlock
devices. But all the necessary settings in the Google app wasn’t
visible. Now rumours are that the fully formed feature has been rolled
out to few users. The section under Google app’s settings warns that
this Trusted Voice system is less secure.
You can avail the feature by just scrolling or tapping a few options. You are all set to unlock your phone by simply uttering, “OK Google”.
Trusted Voice
This Trusted Voice system of Google has
been made available only to few Android users. It starts off when you
speak to the phone and say “OK Google” voice command. With this the
voice commands will not be blocked by the lock screen. The Nexus 6 has
the voice recognition always turned on. Google in all attempts is making
voice commands the central part of Android.
How secure is the Trusted Voice?
The security aspect of the Trusted Voice
is still not very clear. As someone with a similar voice or even a
recording of your voice could easily unlock your devices to other
people. There have been many cases that reports bypasses of security
through facial recognition. The traditional lock screen is always a
safer option. It proves that smartlocks are just about adding more
convenience to safeguard your information on the phone.
Trusted Voice has been featured in the
latest in apps. Apps that are focussed on unlocking your phone rather
than locking it are looking at Trusted Voice as options. There are also
other options to unlock that Google has been adding. Like the Trusted Places
that unlocks your phone only when you are near certain places. Places
like your home or work and on body detection that keeps your phone
unlocked as long as the phone is in your pocket.
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