Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean Face Unlock is very insecure

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich brought a very striking innovation to the operating system, the Face Unlock, which allows us to unlock the screen by showing our face to the device. If it recognizes us, it is unlocked, if it does not recognize us, we are left without accessing the mobile, unless we know how to unlock through the secondary system. However, it was very easy to use a photo of that person to unlock. On Jelly Bean An attempt has been made to solve this problem, however, there are already those who have found a way to circumvent security.

At Ice Cream Sandwich it was very simple. You took a photograph of the person who owns the mobile. A photo that you could take yourself with any other mobile, or that could be obtained from their profiles and images on social networks. This was shown to the device, and the screen was unlocked when it recognized the owner of the mobile. Google had to do something to increase the security of this screen unlocking system. Thus, for Jelly Bean they opted for a small video, instead of an image. In that little video, the user blinks. What do you get with this? Well, a photograph is no longer worth it. The photos are still, and it would be very coincidental to find two identical photos, where the only difference is that in one the subject comes out blinking and in the other not.

Well, some users have used their imagination and have started to test, until they managed to unlock the screen of the device from a still image. It only took a little Photoshop, although it would even work with Windows Paint itself. To begin with, they take a picture of the owner, cover the eyes, painting them the same color as the skin, and under these, they put a black stripe. Have you already got it? They combine this image with the previous one, alternately. What we have achieved is an image in which the eyes are open, and another in which they are closed. And by alternating these, we are getting the flicker effect. Above we leave you a video on how you can do it.


  1.   Anonymous said

    For this and many other things I have an iphone 4S


    1.    Anonymous said

      no one forces you to use this unlocking method ...


    2.    Anonymous said

      You don't need it, almost everyone is more handsome and nobody takes a picture of you ...


    3.    cucumber said

      How hyper-mega-cool you are. and what are you doing here?


    4.    mazmardigan said

      Many other things, see your attention deficit (for which you are here and not on an iPhone blog), your obsessive compulsive syndrome (for which iPhone users have to continually try to prove that their mobile is better) and your mild mental retardation (because the iPhone is ready to be used while delayed).


    5.    Anonymous said

      FUCK… ..tio… .with so much htc sensation xl, xperia s, samsung galaxy S3, S2… ..up to a sony arc of 150 pavetes… and others… ..you have bought the worst cell phone out there right now… fuck like apple mola is cool ...


  2.   I'm leaving said

    I don't know if the person who wrote this article is a fanboy or just hasn't had an android in hand.

    First: when you go to configure facial recognition, the mobile warns you that it is not safe. How should an iPhone 4s warn if it has that system (this for him says that is why he has the 4s)

    Second: how if it does not recognize you you stay without accessing the phone? Have you really tried it before writing that? When facial recognition is configured, you have to configure another alternative lock (eg.), The system requires it, since it is foreseen that you want to unlock the phone in a dark environment.


    1.    Anonymous said

      Apple still destroys brains ...


    2.    Emmanuel Jimenez said

      Sometimes it is advisable to learn to read. It's simple, if you are the owner of the mobile and you configured it with your face, you agree, if you are not the owner, you do not agree because it does not recognize you.


      1.    cucumber said

        What you have to do first is learn to write. And when they correct you recognize the error and not use the ambiguity of a sentence to change the meaning of the message of the entire text.


  3.   Mon said

    Ceporro story is loose ...


  4.   j3 said

    Mr. Emmanuel Jiménez, you have no idea what you are talking about. A little research before publishing an article would not be bad.


  5.   Fran lopez said

    It's sad, out of four articles redirected from "Science and Technology" from the Google news, four articles written without an iota of research or professionalism, three of which were done with tremendous subjectivity with anti-apple thinking and in humorous tones. They only get more talk about them. Do not take out the defects of others, talk about your virtues, my grandfather used to say.

    As for this news, nothing to say that they have not already responded here.


  6.   Jesus said

    We are in August, he must be an "intern", do not be cruel ...


    1.    mazmardigan said

      The truth is that since it exists, Androidayuda I'm quite disappointed, they recycle and repeat articles more frequently than they should, and many others are not verified information...


  7.   Anonymous said

    It is not mandatory….
    so much case, not at all ...

    the hard drive is removed from your laptop, I already tell you that it is surely Mac and Windows….