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Microsoft Wants To Give You A Rorschach
Preedit writes "Microsoft has set up a website that uses inkblot images to help users create passwords. The site asks users view a series of inkblots and write down the first and last letters of whatever word they associate with each inkblot. Then they combine the letters to form a password. Microsoft claims it's a way to create passwords that are easy to remember but hard to crack. But a word of warning, the story notes that Microsoft is collecting and storing users' word associations."
view a series of inkblots and write down the first and last letters of whatever word they associate with each inkblot. Then they combine the letters to form a password.
I got vavavapsva.
More seriously, if they're saving the word associations, doesn't that mean that they have the password you've just generated?
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
microsoft is collecting and storing the data. holy crap, batman, what next. the joker has plans to take over gotham city?
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
The blots are coded to shut your brain down if you don't have a valid regkey.
Slashdot is too nerdy for me.
Anyone wanna bet Ballmer's word list looks a bit like this:
chair
developers
chair
banana
ooohshiny
developers!
developers!
developers!
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
...is penguins.
FLR
"Emo, what does this inkblot look like to you?"
I said, "Oh, it's kind of embarrassing."
He said, "Emo, everyone sees something, so don't be embarrassed. Tell me what the inkblot looks like to you."
I said, "Well, to me it looks like standard pattern #3 in the Rorschach series to test obsessive compulsiveness." And he gets kind of depressed.
I said, "Okay, it's a butterfly." And he cheers up.
He said, "What does this inkblot look like?"
I said, "It looks like a horrible ugly blob of pure evil that sucks the souls of man into a vortex of sin and degradation."
He said, "No, um, the inkblot's over there. That's a photo of my wife you're looking at."
"Oh," I said, "was I far off?" He said, "No. That's the sad part."