Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
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Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
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Re: Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
#2Another way to identify users is by the speed and rhythm they type their username and password.
For example, let's think about a hypothetical company that sells a per-seat license to a database, that wants to determine if multiple people are using a license for a single seat without false positives. The easiest case to detect are multiple concurrent logins from different IPs. However, if the service/database is used less frequently and concurrent logins would not occur, then it will be harder to catch. Detecting this is made more challenging because one user might login from different IPs, computers, operating system, browsers, etc.
Re: Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
#3For physical authentication, vein scanning [1] seems pretty neat -- though it's no more a replacement for passwords than a fingerprint is.
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#4I like the idea of a device/app you keep on your person or maintain on your phone versus something biometric. There may be times when I want to enable a loved one to log in for me or if I become incapacitated I'd like for someone else to have the ability to unlock my info. For those reasons Clef seems to be about the right amount of functionality and device dependence for me.
Re: Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
#5Another way to identify users is by the speed and rhythm they type their username and password. For example, let's think about a hypothetical company that sells a per-seat license to a database, that wants to determine if multiple people are using a license for a single seat without false positives. The easiest case to detect are multiple concurrent logins from different IPs. However, if the service/database is used…
I don't type usernames and passwords and neither should you.
Re: Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
#6Another way to identify users is by the speed and rhythm they type their username and password. For example, let's think about a hypothetical company that sells a per-seat license to a database, that wants to determine if multiple people are using a license for a single seat without false positives. The easiest case to detect are multiple concurrent logins from different IPs. However, if the service/database is used…
Apparently that exists as a service already.. ( https://www.keytrac.net/ )
Crazy.
Re: Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
#7> At the same time, biometric sensors raise questions of security. When Apple’s sensor was announced on Tuesday, a flurry of skepticism and privacy concerns erupted online even though Apple said users’ fingerprints would be stored only on the phone — not sent to online servers or made available to app developers.
Yes, the thumbprint is going to be the bane of the iPhone 5s. It is a horrible idea. They think phones are completely personal. They aren't. I share mine with my daughters all of the time. Sometimes my wife needs to use it. It is going to be a problem.
I'm not sure if thumbprints are worse or Microsoft's racist facial recognition that wouldn't recognize very dark African Americans.
Re: Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
#8> At the same time, biometric sensors raise questions of security. When Apple’s sensor was announced on Tuesday, a flurry of skepticism and privacy concerns erupted online even though Apple said users’ fingerprints would be stored only on the phone — not sent to online servers or made available to app developers. Yes, the thumbprint is going to be the bane of the iPhone 5s. It is a horrible idea. They think phones ar…
> Microsoft's racist facial recognition
Hah, I thought it was using infrared
Re: Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
#9> At the same time, biometric sensors raise questions of security. When Apple’s sensor was announced on Tuesday, a flurry of skepticism and privacy concerns erupted online even though Apple said users’ fingerprints would be stored only on the phone — not sent to online servers or made available to app developers. Yes, the thumbprint is going to be the bane of the iPhone 5s. It is a horrible idea. They think phones ar…
The 5S let's you add other people's thumbprints in addition to your own to unlock the phone.
Re: Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
#10Biometrics aren't secrets and cannot replace passwords but they can compliment them perhaps.
For instance, I can think of identical twins who don't want the other to see their private photos etc...