[Year 12 IT Apps] More security fun & silliness - Lenovo Ideapad U110

[Mark Kelly]

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/review-little-l.html

"As soon as you open it up and power it on, you come face to face with 
one of the U110's most interesting yet unsettling features: VeriFace 
recognition. Here's how this semi-ominous security program works: After 
booting up, the webcam embedded in the bezel starts scanning the room, 
looking for humans (or maybe John Connor).
When it finds you, it superimposes disturbing cross hairs on your eyes 
in an attempt to recognize you and unlock the PC. If you've already 
registered your peepers with the program, this process is over in a 
split second. But if you aren't, the system will hang in a vain attempt 
to find a real user, so you have to shut it down, turn the notebook away 
and open it up again to get it to boot."



-- 
Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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