Using your body, visual patterns as passwords

[rpm]

Using your body as a password

Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns or even their own body parts to identify themselves.

 

[GforceD]

Using your body as a password

Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns or even their own body parts to identify themselves.

biometics is a terrible idea, because all it does is take constant features like fingerprints and convert them to a number, then you have a password that does not change.
the iphone fingerprint scanner can be bypassed, with some woodglue and a laserprinter. or just force the person to press their finger the phone.

 

[ebendl]

I thought it was pretty much a given that face recognition is a bad idea since non of these systems can distinguish between a real, living person versus a photograph being held up to the camera?

 

[FuLL_MeT4L]

Biometrics alone isn't bulletproof. Ideally you want 3-factor authentication at all times.

Something you know, something you have, something you are.

 

[Georgios]

Leon shuster movie. Where your d!ck is your password.

 

[Compton_effect]

Biometrics is a username, not a password.

 

[K3NS31]

I trust the author is aware that facial recognition's been around for years already (yes, including using the webcam - loads of laptops use this system). It's pretty useless, although users do seem to like it.

 

[Compton_effect]

I trust the author is aware that facial recognition's been around for years already (yes, including using the webcam - loads of laptops use this system). It's pretty useless, although users do seem to like it.

First thing I disable.

 

[K3NS31]

First thing I disable.

It's ok for a home machine - better than no password, which seems to be the default for home users.

 

[PoisonedPawn]

Biometrics is a username, not a password.

Biometrics is the science and technology of measuring and analysing biological data. In information technology, biometrics refers to technologies that measure and analyse human body characteristics, such as DNA, fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns and hand measurements, for authentication purposes. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/biometrics

Its can be the username and password - some of the biometrics I use professionally require a username, authenticated by biometrics, while others a username is not entered and authentication (username & password) is done by biometric analysis. Have not yet worked with biometrics that only supply username and not password, but I'm sure its plausible.