First published: 30th April 2008
Significantly, Sophos chose to announce groundbreaking technology - RAPIL (Recognition and Analysis of Potentially Intruding Lifeforms) - on the first day of this month. Apparently, the significance was lost on SearchStorageAsia, who chose to re-publish the story on the 3rd of April.
It seems that the journalists at SearchStorageAsia failed to pick up on the more improbable aspects of the technology and the story:
- The acronym is an anagram
- The version number is v0.401
- "able to produce a real-time forensic analysis of a PC or Mac user's facial features to determine if they exhibit any characteristics commonly associated with hackers"
- "assess the facial characteristics of computer users, and cross-references them against features typically found in cybercriminals"
- “Being able to stop the hackers before they even get a chance to write their malware, let alone spread it, is a breakthrough"
You can help Sophos develop the technology by uploading your photos with and without "face obfuscation".