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Inkblot Passwords
TechnoPope writes "Microsoft Research a new way to get users to not only develop, but remember more secure passwords can be achieved through using inkblots. Because of how the human brain works, you can show the same pictures to different people and almost always come up with different passwords. What's even crazier, is that people generally are able to remember the complex passwords. Sounds like a major breakthrough in security."
Anyone else see these shapes?
butterfly swimmer
recycle logo
WWE Smackdown Enterance
Helping Hands
Evil Eyes
Person Gasping
Turtle man
Boys Spitting
Batman fighting
Batman flying
with an end password of brrowehsespgtnbgbgbg
Hmm, maybe i shouldn't of shared that. This seems to be a really cool system. I look forward to MS adding it to passport!
Blot number 10 would be "Bn": Batman having sex with Catwoman.
From the movie Van Wilder:
Random man (being shown an ink blot picture): "DUDE! It's a guy... and he's giving a circumcision... to HIMSELF!"
How exactly would his password turn out?
If they showed this to the /. crowd:
. .
:)
User1: It's Natalie Portman, i mean look at those curves . .
User2: Beowulf cluster of Linux boxen!
User3: Its the dead body of Steven King.
User4: Hot Grits . . . definately .
User5: In Soviet Russia, the inkblots analyze you!
Think I covered them all
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An innovative, potential useful idea coming from Microsoft?
I can't figure out which is more incredible - that, or the fact that the story got told here...
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I would love this so much more, and find it much more useful, if Steve Jobs had thought of this.
They'll make a total mess of
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Great. Now every password will have something to do with sex.
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I used this system, with 5 different inkblots to generate my 5 most important passwords. They are, in turn:
o ther
MyMother.
Mom.
MyMother.
Momagain.
and
MyM
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"Microsoft Research a new way to get users to not only develop, but remember more secure passwords can be achieved through using inkblots."
Makes one want to weep really.
Here's the passwords I came up with:
Inky
Blotty
inkblotty
inkyblot
I bet there's not too many of these. Put 'em in a wordlist, and, bang!, you're a hacker!
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Its obvious number 7 is a frog getting blown by a kitten and fucked doggy style by something with wings. All the rest are my mother.
Based on this argument, start off with a password of sxsxsxsxsxsxsxsxsxsx.
Seriously, the problem is that with this method the password gets written down. OK, what's rule 1 of security? A written password is a potentially compromised password.
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About 30 years ago, I took part in a psychological experiment that had to do with ink blots.
There were 4 test subjects and the psychologist in the room. He'd show an ink blot to each test subject in turn and record the responses.
I was test subject #4.
On the first ink blot, the first three all said the same thing and I said something different.
The second ink blot went like the first.
I remember that on one ink blot, the guy next to me tried to argue with me into agreeing with him, but I didn't.
In fact, in the entire series of ink blots, the only time I agreed with anyone else was the one time he asked me first. Then everyone else agreed with me.
It turned out that there was only one true test subject, test subject #4. The rest were in cahoots with the psychologist.
The purpose of the experiment was to measure our socialness. The psychologist was rather upset with me because I was way off the curve and told me that I was the most anti-social person he had ever met.
That's something coming from a psychologist who worked at a state reformatory.
Anyway, back on topic, I tend to use passwords that are quite long usually by stringing unusual words together or by creating nonsensical sentences. In both cases, unusual spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are present.
20 characters just doesn't seem enough.
I think this method would be great when paired with the previous laughing recognition method presented here
I mean:
1 - Computer displays inkblot
2 - User begins to laugh
3 - login
4 - PROFIT!!!
how long until
18 months after MS decides security is important and lauches the biggest security review in history, they spent 10000 man hours and 10's of millions of dollars to determine that:
Stubblefield, and his manager at MSR, Dan Simon, knew that people are the weakest link in secure computing environments
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...that nearly every single inkblot reminded me of biology textbook diagrams of female reproductive organs. Except for the ones that reminded me of a upskirt view of a woman's exposed genitalia.
Posted anonymously, because I'm sure I'm going to hell for this as it is....
So, this interviewer asked me to look at a picture and tell him what I saw. I told him it was too embarasing....
;-]
He said, "No, it's ok. Everyone sees something different."
So I told him, "Well, to *me* it looks like pattern number 7 in the Rorschach test for obsessive compulsive dissorder." But, then he got all depressed so I said, "Ok... it's a password prompt."
[with appologies to Emo
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Even if they torture you, you can't reveal it.
:)
Whoa! Fuck that! I am not a secret agent! I want a password I can reveal BEFORE torture!
WWJD?
JWRTFM!
I just think that it was really cool that an intern came up with the idea. I wish that the ideas that I come up with at my internship would end up on the front page of slashdot.
You make a better inkblot, we'll make a better idiot.
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(1) An inkblot
(2) An inkblot
(3) An inkblot
(4) An inkblot
(5) An inkblot
(6) An inkblot
(7) An inkblot
(8) An inkblot
(9) An inkblot
(10) Standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with thousands of naked women screaming and throwing little pickles.
So the correct password is atatatatatatatatatss
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