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Your eyeball is your password

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Your eyeball is your USER ID! (Score: 3, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-27 14:19 (#2NR)

Mistaking user ID for password has the potential for bodily harm. Didn't anyone see Minority Report? Do you really want to create a world where criminals want to steal your eyeballs? Thinking of biometrics as a replacement for passwords is one of the STUPIDEST and MOST DANGEROUS of all security mistakes!

User ID: Public, anyone can copy it, never changes, but you don't try to keep it secret because no one can hurt you with it; they would need your password.

Password: Secret, no one else should see it, must be replaced every six months.

You really want to replace your eyeballs every six months? THINK dammit before you spout nonsense.

Re: Your eyeball is your USER ID! (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-27 22:49 (#2NV)

Good god/spaghetti monster what are you going on about? Have you ever had an RFID style badge to get in to work? Have you ever used an automated toll system? A subway payment card? A general admission ticket to a concert? A freaking metal door key?

None of those things require or assume passwords, and neither do retinal scans and similar tech. Just shut up already please.

Re: Your eyeball is your USER ID! (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-27 22:58 (#2NW)

Which is to say, the editor's use of "password" in the headline rather than "single factor authentication key" is a smart, normal decision. Unlike the wacko shouting in bold about Minority Report, he or she isn't scared and under the compulsion to shout at people about the superiority of two and three factor auth every time he sees people boarding a train after swiping a card through a turnstile.

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2014-07-29 02:08 Normal 0 zenbi@pipedot.org

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