Monday, February 4, 2013

In search of a post-password world

Google wants to ditch the password - sounds lovely (Singularity Hub)
Memorizing numerous passwords is inconvenient. This is known. To counteract said inconvenience, many people use memorable (read: hackable) passwords on multiple sites. Which is a shame because security experts advise that, at a minimum, we use different, random, alpha-numeric strings for every website and switch them out every few months. Kind of the opposite of convenient. And even this method provides but a fig leaf of security.
Google isn't suggesting biometrics, at least not yet, but the article does cover biometrics as a possible solution.