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IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent
An anonymous reader writes "As of August 21, IBM has applied for a patent on "A convenient and secure system and method for access to any number of password-protected computer applications, web sites and forms without adding to the user cognitive load and without circumventing the inherent security of such password-protection schemes. An existing password field on a device display is overlaid with password wallet pop-up field which allows a wallet "master" key to unlock the wallet. An application-specific and/or user-specific password is automatically retrieved from the wallet and entered into the password field with no other user action required." This isn't much different from Mozilla's "Master Password"."
You must be a US citizen, oops I mean "American".
Here is what you are supposed to do:
Consume, Produce, Obey.
Don't think.
You can't look at the name of a patent to know what they're patenting. It's called a "Patent title" and has no bearing on what the claims contain. I can't stand any of you people. Every single time one of you kiddies does a search on the USPTO's site and find something that remotly sounds like something that already exists you come here and post it. I can't believe slashdot lets such stupid articles get posted.
IBM is a publically traded company.
No publically traded company is to be trusted.
There is no such thing as ethics for public companies anymore.
I remind you IBM delivered Hollerith tabulators that were used in nazi concentration camps.
IBM Patent attorney Fritz Teufel is a key person in the EU campaign FOR software patents. See also this article
It's highly likely that I have an above-average intelligence, thank you. See my response to the prior post.