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Recognizing Your Own Handwriting As A Password

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sounds-suspiciously-like-reading dept.

Gary writes "A new online authentication system called Dynahand could make logging in to websites a little easier. With Dynahand, users simply identify their own handwriting, instead of entering a cryptic password or buying a biometric device to scan their fingerprints. The user's handwriting samples contain only digits, since numerals are harder for an outside party to recognize than letters are. The digits displayed are random, so the handwriting is the only clue to the correct answer."

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  1. Re:How about poor geeks like me... by bumby · · Score: 5, Funny

    my digits looks like this:
    012345679 (bitstream vera sans)

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  2. WTF by egandalf · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got a simpler idea, why don't we just ask people a simple true/false question. I've got the first:

    A single html radio-button form-based multiple choice question is a reasonable security measure.
    A) True
    B) False

    But I think there should be an option "C," though that would make this not a real t/f question:
    C) WTF?!

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  3. Re:Brute Force? by Joebert · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the greatest caught masturbating at work coverup I've ever heard.

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  4. Re:Brute Force? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    It'd be much more secure to have the system be "Recognize a picture of your own genitalia" because at least then you only have to worry about former significant others...
    Why do you hate nudists and porn stars?

    ...And hell, for this crowd, you don't even have to worry about that.
    Speak for yourself, I'm quite positive that several hundred people have seen my genitalia. Though I'm not sure they got a good enough look to be able to identify me in the short time my trenchcoat was open.
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  5. Re:How about poor geeks like me... by jimstapleton · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I can see it now:

    "We only have a 10% break-in rate!"

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  6. Re:Giving out your phone number is risky... by Glytch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly. In the old days, someone would have to find the stickynote on one's monitor that specifically had one's password written on it. Under this scheme, any stickynote at all will do!

  7. Re:Brute Force? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Was entirely joking. Besides, wrt the genitalia of the slashdot multitudes, I thought we had all decided that security through obscurity was useless?

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  8. Re:Totally utterly useless on 2 counts by glwtta · · Score: 4, Funny

    biometric of someone's typing rythm strikes me as a good thing

    Haven't we been over this? That system assumes that you are always logging in at the same level of drunk - that's not feasible.

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  9. Re:have to hide my hand writing? by CrazyTalk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope, do what I do - never leave a tip.