ASUS Smartlogon

Anyone used it before? I wanna know how well it performances. Kinda cool when it logs in based on facial recognition.

 

It's laggy as hell. I always get tired of waiting for the recognition and just type the password..

 

I thought about using it.
But never found out How, so I gave up...

Wish these computer came with paper manuals....

 

I tried using for about a month hoping it would get better at recognizing me. It never really did. I wear glasses though, which may make me harder to identify. I would get tired of waiting for it to work and just type my password in. I have now turned it off.

I saw a video of a guy use a picture of himself to gain access. I am not sure where the security slider was when he did that. After I saw that though I kind of dismissed it as a gimmicky thing.

 

This is on our computers LOL?

 

I don't think smartlogon gets any better at recognizing a specific user.. It have the option to take a couple of pics that will be used as "keys".. so anything different from that series of pictures might make the program a bit confused.. not sure tho ! =p

 

Sounds like some cheapo program they whipped up out of the blue for kicks.

 

It works the same as any other manufacturers and as far as whipped up its been around for years. Early fingerprint detection was just as bad and as insecure but theyve gotten alot better than facial recog.

Problem with low resolution facial detection is there isnt a whole lot of detail to work from and a good photo of the person can be used to log in. Poor lighting when taking your login photo can lead to hard to login under good light and vice versa.

If your having trouble, take shots in all sorts of lighting situations, will make it easier in the future. Remember each successful log in also creates a new photo from which to compare your face.

 

I just tried it, its a cool gimmick, but hardly useful

 

Just a note, putting any sort of password protection on your laptop is silly. If your laptop gets stolen, what is the thief going to do? Either whip it out the window or do an HD wipe. Be smart, leave no password and look into Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey.

 

How is it silly? You must be the guy running security for the US Military.

Yes lets make it so someone can quickly access our data, or use our computer without any effort....

I dont think a password has alot todo with what a thief will do with it, or in the long term ultimate security. Its like a key lock on your door, being locked. It provides some protection to its contents and usability but isnt an end all solution. Mind you as far as theft of valuable property goes, the laptop is going alot further then the entire house, and a house has stuff in it that can be sold, which a laptop only has so much of.

Mind you I am using my lojack for laptops lol, yet to see how thats gonna work out.

 

I use it most of the time to log in on My G71. As said by Cluchx2 take multiple pics in different lighting with variants in the position of your face and it should work better. I don't recall it taking any new pics when you log on but i could be wrong because of updates in the software.

 

Best i remember you can actually see succesful and unsuccesful login photos in the app.

I havent used it in so long tho

 

Definitely the password is not for thieves..
Oh, and I'm sorry for the US Military if they have to put up with ASUS Smartlogon "technology" lol

 

Did you even LOOK into the website? If you have any data that can be accessed on your computer that is "US Military" material, there is a little thing called Folder Lock for that. While Prey (the website you never bothered to check), will give you a GPS location and photo of the thief within 20 minutes of your unit being stolen, for free. So if someone, say, breaks into our respective homes and steals our laptop, you'll be left with "US Military" intelligence that didn't get compromised, while I'll have the police show up at the guy's door within an hour.

 

Hmm my browser doesn't seem to actually time stamp when I visited something, but oh look its in my history from earlier. Uploaded for the hell of it.

Mind you windows can "folder lock" anything on ntfs based file systems. Though Microsoft was also kind enough to give law enforcement "coffee tools" to go around this. Power users can boot into administrator under safe mode on home editions and do a force change of ownership. This applications folder lock isnt gonna be any different than me using another similar security measure from paranoid type security software.

Point is I wouldnt tell people to leave their house unlocked, why would you tell them to not use a password. I would rather have a password to log on then to have todo something to get into my folders btw.

As far as prey goes, it doesnt seem to offer any protection that a notebook with bios, motherboard and wifi chip based security does. As you said what is he going todo wipe the laptop and use it or sell it. There exists other solutions that once the laptop is wiped the security and tracking is still there. Mind you yes your data was not compromised.

 

Living in Canada, the police here doesn't give a dam about stolen goods. They will not chase after it even if you say you know exactly where it is. Their reply is "If it turns up here, we'll give you a call to claim it." Will it ever turn up? Hell no.

 

I dont understand why ppl dont use the password function of the bios. OS password isnt in any way secure

 

There is another software package out that does this. I will have to look it up and post the name, but it worked quite a lot better.

One thing I did see while testing this program was to take more face shots for it to work from, as I did this it worked better.
I turn this on so the Grand Kids can use it. They get a kick out of watching what it does.
Other than that you do not really need it other than it looks cool to people who are not gamers or Engineers like most of us are.

 

Yeah, im sure that program would work wonders when you have people in your home snooping through your pc LOL.