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Microsoft States It's Time to Kill Off the Password
Microsoft's solution to the password would be you. In what seems to be evangelizing for Windows Hello, its facial, fingerprint, and iris-scanning system, the company is promoting its superiority of biometrics over strings of typed text for security.
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#5506282 Posted on: 01/02/2018 10:11 AM
Hilbert,the link points to no article.
I google it, and there are several sources to that title.
Ok, now on the topic .
Microsoft, by saying that impllies that you ought to use Windows 10,right?And Windows Hello was a few days ago fooled by a photo by SYS german security firm.I am not saying that this will stay that way and it will be improved, but opens a new can of worms:
What if:
I use my computer and my spouse on the same accoount?
Do i need to change my shaving habits in order to be accepted by Hello?
I may add facial tatoo or body piercings, or suffered facial wounds/scars, will it be accepted, or go back to the old deprecated password?
i can image this scenario: get a good photo of someone from social network, 3d print it, and fool Windows Hello.
Hilbert,the link points to no article.
I google it, and there are several sources to that title.
Ok, now on the topic .
Microsoft, by saying that impllies that you ought to use Windows 10,right?And Windows Hello was a few days ago fooled by a photo by SYS german security firm.I am not saying that this will stay that way and it will be improved, but opens a new can of worms:
What if:
I use my computer and my spouse on the same accoount?
Do i need to change my shaving habits in order to be accepted by Hello?
I may add facial tatoo or body piercings, or suffered facial wounds/scars, will it be accepted, or go back to the old deprecated password?
i can image this scenario: get a good photo of someone from social network, 3d print it, and fool Windows Hello.
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#5506286 Posted on: 01/02/2018 10:23 AM
We can add work in room without lights. Will facial recognition work in the dark room?
We can add work in room without lights. Will facial recognition work in the dark room?
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#5506289 Posted on: 01/02/2018 10:26 AM
Any for of biometrics which works off a stationary input (facial recognition and fingerprints, typically) should not be used as a password. After all, the worst password you can ever have is one you leave/show everywhere and pretty much cannot change. These are, at best, user names.
Passwords need to be something which requires a living subject to be present, or at least something which can be easily altered in the event you become compromised.
Any for of biometrics which works off a stationary input (facial recognition and fingerprints, typically) should not be used as a password. After all, the worst password you can ever have is one you leave/show everywhere and pretty much cannot change. These are, at best, user names.
Passwords need to be something which requires a living subject to be present, or at least something which can be easily altered in the event you become compromised.
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#5506300 Posted on: 01/02/2018 11:12 AM
This, one thousand times. The face/fingerprint/iris/blood is the USERNAME and not the password. You would expect that someone from their "top 1% talent" in there would have had that common sense already, or maybe it's the project managers' idea and maybe those guys come from the toilet of intellectuality instead of the 1%...
This, one thousand times. The face/fingerprint/iris/blood is the USERNAME and not the password. You would expect that someone from their "top 1% talent" in there would have had that common sense already, or maybe it's the project managers' idea and maybe those guys come from the toilet of intellectuality instead of the 1%...
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Error?
Although I can understand having fingerprint, iris or face scan as a alternative if the system supports the tech, nothing wrong with having both though but obviously the password needs to be something besides abc123 and common terms ha ha.