Face recognition available for jailbroken iPhone 4
19 May, 2011
category: Biometrics
A face recognition app is available for $7 download to an Apple iPhone 4 so long as it has been jailbroken, the act of hacking into a phone’s firmware to enable a user to bypass limits or controls set by developers, according to a Dvice article.
The application, called RecognizeMe, utilizes the front facing camera embedded on iPhone 4 phones to authenticate a user via his face to unlock the phone for use by registered users. Additionally, RecognizeMe has included a few features beyond a simple face recognition that allows a user to set more specified parameters that would lock out people with very similar faces including twins.
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