Another thing is some password sites changing length requirements. Some require at least 6 up to 8 characters, some have no length requirements...I have at least five different passwords I may potentially use, all of different lengths, because of this. Part of the argument that using a 'standard' is the only way to solve this issue but is also less secure because all someone has to do is figure out the standard...but in reality, all you need to do is gain unlawful access to one system and the rest are irrelevant. Administrators have the hardest job in the world, because if their password is stolen, then someone else has complete and utter access of whatever system they're on.
Hollywood has also misguided a lot of people into thinking that there's no such thing as a secure system, so all of these login and password things are just irrelevant and a nuisance, so they don't even bother taking them seriously.
I think the best security they can come up with is some sort of biological interface. A thumb scan, or something that can analyze individual fingerprints. While that even wouldn't be 100% secure...it'd be 99% more secure than the existing username and password systems in use today! And given that pretty much all computers have USB ports these days, making a small, inexpensive USB fingerprint scanner would be incredibly easy. Sure, people might complain about insecurity because someone could lift your fingerprint from it...but that's easily taken care of by simply wiping off the interface with a proper cloth after every use. Next up could be an optical interface, but that'd be much more expensive and less viable.
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Date: 2005-02-03 05:47 pm (UTC)Hollywood has also misguided a lot of people into thinking that there's no such thing as a secure system, so all of these login and password things are just irrelevant and a nuisance, so they don't even bother taking them seriously.
I think the best security they can come up with is some sort of biological interface. A thumb scan, or something that can analyze individual fingerprints. While that even wouldn't be 100% secure...it'd be 99% more secure than the existing username and password systems in use today! And given that pretty much all computers have USB ports these days, making a small, inexpensive USB fingerprint scanner would be incredibly easy. Sure, people might complain about insecurity because someone could lift your fingerprint from it...but that's easily taken care of by simply wiping off the interface with a proper cloth after every use. Next up could be an optical interface, but that'd be much more expensive and less viable.