I would love to know what everyone thinks about this concept. Do you think the password is dead?
This may be closer than you think. Google’s security team outlines this sort of ring-finger authentication in a new research paper, set to be published late this month in the engineering journal IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. In it, Google Vice President of Security Eric Grosse and Engineer Mayank Upadhyay outline all sorts ways they think people could wind up logging into websites in the future — and it’s about time.
2012 may have been the year that the password broke. It seemed like everyone on the internet received spam e-mail or desperate pleas for cash — the so-called “Mugged in London” scam — from the e-mail accounts of people who had been hacked. And Wired’s own Mat Honan showed everyone just how damaging a hack can be.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/
Google Declares War on the Password
I don't think the passwords are completely dead but they are needed all over the internet and users have many passwords which are hard to remember if you want to have the bulletproof password and not just simple 1234. Therefore usage of some unique human authentications like finger or eye print with the secondary level of authentication via smartphones probably will spread.
I certainly think something has do be done, and this new type of authentication would help. I get tires of receiving emails from "friends" with links to try this or try that.
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