Friday, 29 May 2015

Lockheed Martin says NSA testing smartphones that can identify you from finger swipes

Lockheed Martin says NSA testing smartphones that can identify you from finger swipes

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been testing out a new technology that can identify a user by the shape and swiftness of their finger swipe strokes on a smartphone screen, according to Lockheed Martin. The technology, known as Mandrake, is similar to Dynamic Signature – a motion-recognition technology originally invented by the US Air Force in 1978 for the Pentagon that makes use of the behavioural biometrics of a handwritten signature.
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