Clayton wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:46 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
I'm wondering if anybody's working on a system to replace the traditional username/password with something like a picture. (you pick which one out of a table of pictures, for instance).
Could you expand on that? I have my system set up that you can click on a picture and then enter the user password in order to log-in. I've been doing it that way since at least 10.0.
The picture password is an idea that has been around for a very long time. There are variations from selecting several images in the correct order from a "wall" of images to selecting one correct image from a stack of images to selecting points on a single image in the correct order.
EXTREMELY weak security. If I just look over your shoulder, from nearly anywhere in the room where I can view the screen, I have your "password" in one observation. At least to get your password off a keyboard, someone would have to observe you typing it several times (unless you are a REALLY slow hunt-and-peck type). Some ideas just aren't that good. This is one of them.
Some link from the past few years... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1986713.stm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/25/picture_this_imagebased_passwords/ http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1000783,... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45p1Er4H8h0
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