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Let Your Theme Song be Your Password

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the just-pick-something-so-horrible-no-one-will-want-to-use-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The latest proposed solution to the fact humans suck at using passwords properly is to let people use digital objects, like mp3s, photos or videos instead. A file is hashed into a unique, secure string that acts as the real password. A paper on the idea was put forward in a recent Usenix conference on hot topics in security, and a Firefox extension that implements the idea is available too."

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  1. Hmmm.. by seeker_1us · · Score: 5, Funny
    The latest RIAA claim...

    "Your honor, the defendant has a musical password which was not authorized by us! By using it on more than one computer, he has distributed it illegally. We demand $700,000 in damages."

  2. Re:Stupid? by EdIII · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really? I used to use the tip of my penis, but MAN you should have heard the other people in the building COMPLAIN. Bitch, Bitch, Bitch.