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| From | Tommy Mercer <txmercer@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 |
| Date | 2014-02-18 21:22 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <le0ive$8nq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 2014-02-18, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: > On 2014-02-18, dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> wrote: >> El Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:31:54 +0000, RS Wood escribió: >> >>> I'm having trouble figuring this one out. The globe does provide >>> more diversity of choice but I suspect most users would unconsciously >>> choose a place they have a connection to. Rather than choose some >>> random mountain in Kyrgyzstan they are going to choose something >>> familiar, and that provides an attack route when trying to crack their >>> password. >> >> If the password system allows for arbitrary shapes, there's additional >> protection even if the user chooses his home or workplace as the >> pass-site. There's no way to guess "my college campus, but just leave >> out the terrible cafeteria at Comp-sci faculty". >> >> Of course, users should be educated to avoid using basic shapes like >> squares or hexagons, just as they now know to avoid using their birth >> date or a number sequence. Oh, wait... > > I'm remembering, too, that Americans (at least) have increasingly lousy > geography skills. It was in the midst of the last Iraq invasion that > some researcher discovered a surprisingly high number of Americans > couldn't find Iraq on a map. That's depressing. > > I'm all in favor of a substitute for passwords, but we're not there yet, > and the new craze of fingerprint scanners doesn't yet seem to be an > improvement. > > I'm waiting for "drop of spit" technology, where the sensor reads your > DNA to log you in :) It sounds like microsoft's picture password stuff attached to GIS data. I'm not sure everyone wants to license and store all that GIS data just to draw pictures on it. -txm
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Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-17 09:25 +0925
Re: Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-17 19:08 +0200
Re: Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-17 17:52 +0000
Re:Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-18 10:31 +0000
Re:Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 12:52 +0000
Re: Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-18 20:01 +0000
Re: Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 Tommy Mercer <txmercer@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 21:22 +0000
Re: Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-02-22 17:51 +0000
Re: Geographical passwords could solve the password catch-22 "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-22 12:48 +0000
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