Your face is your password
Gone may be the days of remembering passwords or scanning your fingerprint to log on to your PC. If NecSoft's new authentication software catches on, all you'll need is your face.
Say cheese! Or a random combination of
numbers and letters!
The NecSoft BiodeLogon system uses a Webcam to take your mugshot, then matches it up to your assigned user photo. If it's a match, you're logged in. So if you need to change your password, just get a haircut or pierce your nose.
Sounds easy...maybe too easy. If you have an identical twin, can they access your PC? What if you're just not feeling like yourself that day? If the Caps Lock is on when BiodeLogon scans your mug, is the all-caps version of your face the same as your normal face?
Actually, it doesn't really matter. Face passwords are the coolest.
but there are a number of ways passwords can be stolen
i think it as easy as stole your photo
For example passwords can be stolen if the computer is stolen,
or if the computer is accessed by someone while you are absent,
or somebody can see keyboard keys while you typing password
so ... security of face logon is comparable with password logon, I like to use Rohos Face Logon http://www.rohos.com/products/rohos-face-logon/
Even then, someone could hold a videotape of you talking with it zoomed up close on your face, and use it to get past this stuff.
A better system would be multi-pronged: face recognition, voice recognition, a spoken password, and a typed password.
Though how many average people are going to use that, is a question I cannot answer.
There are way too many reasons to list here why [b][u]NOT[/u][/b] to trust such a program such as this. Not the [b]least[/b] of which, is the way this can be (and most likely WILL someday be) exploited by [i]Big Brother[/i]. [b]THINK[/b] about THAT one! That's in addition to all the other reasons/questions raised before this particular post.
[b]PEOPLE[/b], [u]STOP[/u] having a LAZY attitude and wanting the easy way out of everything. There are way too many other options to keeping/recalling your passwords [b]IF[/b] you actually [u]USE[/u] your mind/IQ/ [b]immagination[/b] to come up with simple ways to manage your passwords.
[b][u]ANY[/u] [/b] computer program that is designed to [i]help[/i] you manage passwords [b][u]CAN[/u][/b] be breached and/or abused. THINK about that...............
Don't think something that is seemingly innocent can't be abused? READ THIS:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/02/05/2248247.shtml
- SCAM! FACES for Record keeping!
- by Gobby Hilda February 7, 2007 3:11 PM PST
- It is possible to keep ALL User' faces on records.
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(14 Comments)It is just a matter of software to weed out criminals.
The question is: who is a criminal?
Same thing with fingerprint readers; they have yours on record now...