Biometric security was everyone’s dream on phones, so that no one gets access to our personal data, without permission.
BluePlanet Apps has been laying down efforts for the cause and has made good progress so far. They are now ready for their Beta release of the application. BioLock is a truly futuristic concept brought to life by scanning either your iris, recognizing your face, or using a password to unlock your phone.
The app uses “Army-grade algorithms” for face modeling when doing facial recognition and even has blink detection and pupil dilation to prevent someone from merely using a photo of you. The apps works flawlessly to protect the complete phone or specific apps or data you intend on hiding. And whenever you try to access that app, BioLock would open up first, holding the gates.
Blueplanet develops apps not just for Android, but WP7 as well. But the founder has said that this type of app is actually possible only on Android, as Braverman explains:
BioLock requires a certain degree of access in order to unlock a phone with your iris. When talking to Google and Microsoft, Blue Planet Apps was able to have a very open and frank conversation on this topic. When it came to speaking with Apple, they just said there was no way to access such functionality in their operating system.
BioLock being tested on a Samsung Galaxy Tab:
The plan is to have both a consumer version and a corporate version, making it truly a powerful security available for everyone.
“As for BioLock, it has many possibilities. We have ideas for a consumer and enterprise model, the consumer model will replace the lock screen, allow users to lock as much of the phone as possible, contacts, dialer, phone numbers, apps, etc.
The enterprise model is a whole another beast, it connects to Microsoft Azure cloud, and does the authentication off the device, so the scan is taken, sent to the cloud, authenticated and sent back. It is currently designed to use a 1024bit Polymorphic Cipher which, should by some miracle someone intercepts the encrypted hash, is uncrackable. This is designed to be adapted into the end users applications, for example, a Banking app, or government email app that can encrypt messages before sending them (wikileaks would never have happened). Healthcare, etc. the list goes on and on.
We have some other ideas for this technology, as off shoots of BioLock, using the FFC (Front Facing camera) to scan a users face while playing a game and send targeted marketing, or for social media communication during gaming.
The end result is that with our smartphones and tablets rapidly replacing our desktops and laptops, most of our future financial and other secure transactions will be over mobile/wireless networks and will need much more robust security. Nothing is more secure or reliable than YOU. Iris being the MOST accurate, then Face. We are also going to add Voice verification in the consumer model of BioLock and users will have the option to choose one or a combination of options to lock down their device.
Blue Planet Apps is currently working very closely with Samsung to develop BioLock on Samsung devices, with the possible result being that Samsung will deploy it on all its devices as part of the AndroidOS. We have also been talking to Nokia for deployment of BioLock on the upcoming Meego platform and other platforms as well.”
Now that would be another Killer app for Android.
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