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Graffiti as Password - Secure and Memorable

Posted by Zonk on from the crouching-tiger-hidding-content dept.

Al writes "A group from Newcastle University has released work that significantly improves the Draw-A-Secret method of creating passwords. The basic concept behind Draw-a-Secret is that humans excel at image recognition and memory, so 'passwords' should be designed to leverage that ability. The people behind the new work have refined the technique by parsing the shapes with a flexible grid and using existing images as a background to reinforce memory of the password. Imagine having your password be a graffiti-laden alteration of your favorite politicians campaign photo..."

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  1. Re:Myspace crackers would love this by Aesir1984 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spacegun? Having been a 14 year old boy at one point I can tell you it the password would be a picture of an attractive, scantily clad woman. Actually that would probably still apply today...

  2. Enforcement Policy by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must change your graffiti drawing every 7 days and ensure you do not use the same sequence of circles squiggles strokes or triangles.
    Your graffiti sketch also must be greater than a house and a tree in complexity and has to include accurate birds and sunshine bars.

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    1. Re:Enforcement Policy by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny
      "a graffiti-laden alteration of your favorite politicians campaign photo"

      Mustache is not sufficient alteration. Please redraw your password.

  3. Re:Myspace crackers would love this by tweak13 · · Score: 5, Funny

    odds are the password of a 14 year old boy would be a spacegun Is that what the 14 year old kids are calling it these days?

  4. Dupe as password! by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 3, Funny

    That wouldn't be sucure would it?

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  5. Re:pain in the.. by DarkIye · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...my one blood shot eye.

    'Type in your password'? Why would a sheep farmer need to do that?

    (Oh, god, I hope the moderators get this one.)

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  6. Works for me. by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 1, Funny
    On one site, there's a picture of George Bush, I type ASSHOLE, and I'm in like flint.

    Really easy to remember!

    RS

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  7. Re:More secure, less useful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone invented a third dimension a few years ago.

  8. Re:not as memorable as my first fisting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You should have attended a slashdot 10-year anniversary party. Lots of buttsex, believe you me. My asshole still hurts! We (Ann Arbor, Michigan) decided to make it a monthly event!

  9. Oblig. Penny Arcade by xenocide2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is delicious?

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  10. Done and Done by Sir_Brysonic · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just finished changing all of my passwords to "Graffiti". I'd better tell my friends to do the same!