{"id":240612,"date":"2017-12-04T07:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T05:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=240612"},"modified":"2017-12-04T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:00:38","slug":"samsung-palm-reader-for-password-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/240612-samsung-palm-reader-for-password-security.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung palm reader for password security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/patentscope.wipo.int\/search\/docservicepdf_pct\/id00000040307036\/PAMPH\/WO2017204396.pdf?psAuth=_sIMPTe5CGNaCRwd3Bu3u2eH1GINDeXea_rlbzqksxQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>patent application<\/strong><\/a> for a palm-scanning security system, which would be used to display password hints.<\/p>\n<p>The system will help users remember their password by scanning their palm and displaying hints as incomplete characters.<\/p>\n<p>While the palm-scanning system could be used to sign users into their Samsung smartphone, it would require depth-sensing capabilities to prevent being fooled by pictures of the user&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known whether the system will be implemented in Samsung&#8217;s upcoming mobile devices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/240164-samsung-acquires-ai-company-to-improve-bixby.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung acquires AI company to improve Bixby<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has filed a patent application for a palm-scanning security system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[47298,47678,645],"class_list":["post-240612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-biometric-security","tag-palm-scanning","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240628,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240612\/revisions\/240628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}