Using Images as Passwords

TekkenLaw writes "According to this news on Reuters, MS is looking at images rather than plain old text for enhancing security. The key - images, which tend to make more of an impression on people than strings of text characters. This is especially interesting in context of the crappy passwords story that ran on Slashdot that ran few days back." So when you call support to get your lost password, will they ask you what your mothers maiden hair color was?

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I remember this...

[ruiner13]

Wasn't that in that horrible Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Neumonic? I remeber the pain and suffering of watching him get Ice-T to find the missing picture password piece using the military surplus dolphin living in a bridge.

Hope we won't all have to go through that to unlock our computers.

This is kinda like 'Johnny Mnemonic'

[fennell]

good book, bad movie. can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those dolphins? >;)