“We have a phone and these phones have all these sensors in them”, Kaufman said, explaining the idea behind the project.
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Google announced on May 20, Friday at its I/O developer conference that it has plans to replace traditional passwords with something it calls Trust Scores. Daniel Kaufman, the leader of Google’s ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects) wing has discussed his vision regrading security and enforcement customizing latest technology, that is now under development in the incubation center.
And if the institution you are trying to gain access to needs more evidence, it can request a password or biometric. Some monitored metrics might include facial recognition, fingerprint authentication, typing patterns, tying speed, general behavioral data, voice recognition and location information. I can imagine others out there feel the same, and depending upon the findings during the testing period I would be interested to see exactly how the Trust API is integrated into the apps I use on a daily basis. She claimed the system is tenfold more secure then fingerprint sensors and 100x safer than 4 digit PIN codes. Google says it will make the feature available to Android developers by year-end.
When a high Trust Score is generated, this means the device is confident in your identity. So Google is going to get ride of them, and next month it’ll begin testing new better alternatives to a difficult-to-remember combination characters. “If your score isn’t high enough, apps could revert back to asking for passwords”. While accessing games it requires much less authentication whereas in case of banking apps and other transaction procedures, access requires a 2-phase lock system.
Backing up to Google I/O 2015, the ATAP team introduced Project Abacus, which allows Android to take different pieces of data and identify exactly who is holding the mobile device. So why are they still with us?
The way Project Abacus works is that instead of relying on passwords or two-factor authentication to open your Android phone, your device will instead authenticate you based on how you used your device.
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Some users may understandably be reluctant in using the system, as it does involve giving up a certain amount of privacy to Google because of how it collects and stores their data.
