New Technology Combines Lip Motion and Passwords For User Authentication (bleepingcomputer.com)

An anonymous reader writes: "Scientists from the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have developed a new user authentication system that relies on reading lip motions while the user speaks a password out loud," reports BleepingComputer. Called "lip password" the system combines the best parts of classic password-based systems with the good parts of biometrics. The system relies on the uniqueness of someone's lips, such as shape, texture, and lip motions, but also allows someone to change the lip motion (password), in case the system ever gets compromised. Other biometric solutions, such as fingerprints, iris scans, and facial features, become eternally useless once compromised.

Comments

Why not just demand passphrases instead?

[Anonymous Coward]

And passphrases of at least 15 characters, with no ridiculous rules such as 'Must use a capital letter, a number, a non-alphanumeric character' etc.
The general public must be so incredibly stupid that they can't even create decent passwords.

So that means

[thinkwaitfast]

I have to take the bandaid off the camera on my laptop to protect my cat pictures.

No thanks

The Irony of this Security.

[geekmux]

So, we've reached a point where a user actually has to say their shitty password out loud in order to obtain better security?

Let me put my boots on so I can wade through the irony.

Oh, and not to nitpick or anything, but this is hardly combining functionality to create better security when your password is known to anyone within earshot of you authenticating. One half of that system is basically compromised simply by using it as intended.

I cannot do this.

[LordHighExecutioner]

My passwords are way too embarassing to be said loudly in presence of my coworkers.