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Recognizing Your Own Handwriting As A Password
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."
my digits looks like this:
012345679 (bitstream vera sans)
Hey! That's my sig you're smoking there!
To anwser my own question, I found a better article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18986/
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?!
Those who have telepathy have no need to RTFA.
That's the greatest caught masturbating at work coverup I've ever heard.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
It's a bad call if it's the only authentication entry, but if it's in addition to something else it might be good. Many banks seem to be going for the 'something you know, and something you recognize' auth motif (banking as one example, where you recognize and identify a preselected word or graphic.) Maybe soon for really secure accounts, we'll have a fairly painless set of layers, ala: something you have - the random PIN cards, something you know - pword, something you i.d. - (handwriting/picture/word)?
Be careful of your thoughts; they could become words at any minute...
From the article's first paragraph:
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You can't afford to be careless regarding the password coz you never know
And with that, I stopped reading. Why? Because I don't have enough time to read things that aren't written in at least passable English. If someone has a good idea, and are serious about it, they'll make the effort to communicate it well or have it communicated well for them.
Nothing to see in this article, and, by strong implication, a worthless idea.
Put my fist through my alarm clock with its ding-dong death inside my ear. - The Blackjacks.