This Could Be the Most Secure Password Ever

Time Magazine ^ | 9/17/14 | Alexandra Sifferlin

[lifeofgrace]

Scientists are using your heart as a security authenticator

RECOMMENDED FOR YOU Netropolitan: Facebook For The Rich Or Respite From Snark? Besides Scotland, Where Else is Secession Possible? Speak Up: Stop Bullying I Attorney General Eric Holder I Cartoon Network by Taboola In the wake of serious security breaches in the last year, from the pilfering of Target customers’ credit card information to the celebrity iCloud selfie-hack, it’s easy to feel digitally naked. Your current best options—like making your password something along the lines of “**_^XBE47>>” or using two-step verification—also have their shortcomings, which has inspired a crop of enterprising scientists to come up with what must be the oddest, and possibly most secure, password yet: the rhythm of your heart.

[lifeofgrace]

Is this heading quickly to the Mark of the Beast foretold in Revelation?

[humblegunner]

Surely you realize the above post is meaningless word salad?

[Robert A Cook PE]

This is odd ....

Viking confused kitty alert.

Zot don’t know where to strike.

[Textide]

The excerpt starts after “Taboola”.

There’s a sentence I never thought I’d type.

[rarestia]

It's a wristband not an implant.

That said, password security is best with passphrases. Passwords are old news, and people should realize that multiple words used for access are much harder to crack than a single word or your dog's name.

Additionally, 2-factor authentication where you have something like a thumb drive with a certificate or a smart card (what you have) and the use of a complex passphrase (what you know) is making a comeback in a big way and should start becoming mainstream, esp. with all the recent online exploits and POS hacking incidents in the news.

[SkyDancer]

Go here:http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/

[Second Amendment First]

Try unlocking your phone to call 911 when having a heart attack.

[rarestia]

Emergency dialing is available on every model phone made in the world without having to authenticate to the local OS.

[ChildOfThe60s]

The best password or pass-phrase is one that you can’t seem to ever get entered correctly before getting locked out /grin

[Vigilanteman]

Way back in the 1990s when I was traveling and on business for a well-known corporate name plate, I was issued a credit card sized device with a password which changed every 30 seconds or so. I could log on to my corporate issued laptop with that password only and was automatically logged off anytime I closed down the computer or didn't engage in any keyboard activity for 15 minutes or so.

So, I'm not sure or how this technology is a great improvement.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Try unlocking your phone to call 911 when having a heart attack.”

VERY GOOD POINT! This is a gimmick with lots of holes. People's heart rhythms and ECGs are not set in stone - by any stretch of the imagination.

[MD Expat in PA]

Surely you realize the above post is meaningless word salad?

Surely your are not serious and stop calling me Shirley! LOL!

[rarestia]

Those devices are still in place but are often smartphone apps now. We use RSA’s product for this very thing, but there are plenty of vendors that do the same.

I’m an advocate for certificate-based authentication where a corporation sets up a robust PKI environment in-house and administers user- and device-level certification authentication for everything. It’s seamless to the user, but it prevents unauthorized access. Sadly, most corporations don’t have the brain- or man-power to put these systems into place.

I’ve done it for my personal home network, and it took me almost a week to tweak it to my liking. A corporate environment takes much more time and effort.

[Red Badger]

LoL!.............

[rarestia]

Three unrelated words separated by spaces is much more difficult to brute-force hack than a single word obscured with numbers and characters. There are plenty of write ups on just this thing. Make it easy on yourself and try it.

For instance, “Child Of The Sixties” could be a great password. If you need a number, change Sixties to 60s. It would take much longer to crack that than say, “IL0v3W005$tock”

It looks harder to crack, but computers don’t think like humans.

[Second Amendment First]

My son had a similar keychain device to access his account at a govt research lab. I’ll have to check to see what they use now.

[dfwgator]

[rarestia]

They’re a turnkey solution for most organizations, but they are by no means the most secure way to do business. A majority of major corporations use something akin to this, however.

[Teacher317]

one of my former passwords that I rotated out last year was similar to
Jannifer_Anist0n@barbieQ-46970:)

If someone can guess THAT, with the intentional spelling error, the substitution of numbers for letters, the emoticon, 32 characters, etc, then they deserve to have access to my FReepmail.

I save the tougher passwords for my more personal webpages.

[Biggirl]

Better yet, write your password down, so you will not forget.