feat: make the basic photo check the default, no blink needed
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@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ plasma-face-unlock - face unlock for KDE Plasma
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Look at the screen and it unlocks, the way a phone does. The lock screen, sudo
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in a terminal and the admin password prompts of Plasma can all take a face
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instead of a password. Before a face counts, it has to show a sign of life, so
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holding up a photo of somebody is not enough.
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instead of a password. A photo of somebody on a phone or tablet does not get
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in, and with the strict photo check a printed one does not either.
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A bubble at the top of the screen shows what is going on: it drops down when
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the camera starts looking, the face in it looks around, and when it recognises
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@@ -128,14 +128,18 @@ Confirm cues are evidence of a real head. *strict* needs one of them:
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real turn, measured without the nose's own jitter, and the face has to
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narrow no more than a head that turned that far would.
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*basic* uses the deny cues only. *off* checks nothing and is only for trying
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out a camera.
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*basic*, the default, uses the deny cues only: nobody has to blink, and a
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phone, a tablet or a glossy print held up is still refused. A matte printed
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photo is not, so *strict* is the one to pick when that matters. *off* checks
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nothing and is only for trying out a camera.
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# HOW SAFE IS THIS
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A webcam sees a flat picture. A phone's face unlock builds a depth map with a
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projector and an infrared camera; this cannot. What the photo check does:
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- a photo on a phone or tablet, or a glossy print, is refused by *basic*, the
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default. A matte printed photo can get past *basic*;
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- a photo, printed or on a screen, held up and turned any way, is refused by
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*strict*;
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- a photo curled strongly and turned a lot can pass the head turn cue some of
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