How your body stank could be the future of smartphone security

Thumbprints can be replicated, facescans can be faked, but your sweat? It’s one of a kind. Or at least unique enough, as far as smartphone security goes. That’s the takeaway from a group of researchers claiming to have found a more secure form of biometric identification that could one day have you wiping to unlock. 

The idea is relatively straightforward: Everyone’s got a sweat profile, specific to them. And a smart device could learn the secret blend of secretions unique to its owner, let his or her phone sample whatever lovely blend is oozing out of their moist pores, and unlock the phone with it.  Read more…

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