Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Weakness "Smart Key" Android 5.1

Clever or smart lock locking feature is the default Google to facilitate users to perform automatic locking. Thus, users do not need merely open and lock the phone repeatedly by hand.

Well, the latest type of locking ditelurkan Google is "on-body detection". This feature works like a body detection. If the phone is in the hand or on the bag, then the phone automatically will continue to open or unlocked.

Conversely, if the phone lying on a table or on the point nowhere near the owner, then the phone will be automatically locked. When you wish to take the phone located in the table, the user must manually unlock.

This feature seems to want to keep the mobile phone with its intimacy. As if the mobile device is located near the user, he will never locked.

The disadvantage

But there are less than this new locking models. Reported KompasTekno, Monday (23/03/2015) from AndroidPolice, on-body detection only detects the human body in general, not specific to the user.

Thus, such as in the open state, then the user's phone is held by his friend, then lock the phone also will continue to open. In a way, this smart locking means is more practical but more insecure than other types of smart locking.

When users leave the phone to a friend, there is no guarantee that the user data will remain safe. Similarly, if there is a pickpocket who took the phone from the pouch user, the phone is stolen in an open state.

Google seems to be getting ready to smart locking system this time. Because the higher the chance for those ignorant people who want to steal the data on the phone or just want to know the contents of the user's phone.

This feature was first known pinned on the Nexus 4 that runs on Android 5.0.1. Android device yet known which will be assigned to features on-body detection. So far these features were reported to be in the smartphone Nexus 4, 5, and 6.

As is known, previously Google also released the Trusted Face feature, Trusted Devices, and Trusted Places, as part of a secure locking.

In Trusted Face, the user must register his face in order to be recorded on the phone. Thereafter, to unlock mobile phones, users have to scan his face. If similar to those listed, may open a new phone. So, nobody else can open the phone arbitrarily.

For Trusted Devices, users can connect a bluetooth device wearable or more practically without having to use a password when being connected. There is also a Trusted Places launched at the end of 2014. This feature will identify any place that feels safe for users that do not need to lock the cell phone in those places.

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