Posted on 05/31/2013 1:56:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Motorola’s Regina Dugan suggested at the Wall Street Journal’s D11 conference that pills and tattoos could replace passwords as the radical solutions to the perennial authentication problem. …
University of Illinois researcher Dr. John Rogers developed an electronic tattoo that was later produced by a company called MC 10. Motorola plans on working with them to advance a tattoo that could be used for authentication. …
Dugan described her next method of authentication as “vitamin authentication” before pulling a pill out of her pocket and explaining that the pill had a small chip inside of it. The chip contains a switch. … When swallowed, she explains, the acids in your stomach serve as the electrolyte and they power up the switch, which turns on and off. The switch creates an 18-bit ECG-like signal and essentially your entire body becomes the authentication mechanism. This would give users the ability to authenticate by touch. …
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The tattoos can be a variation of the numbers 666.
18 Bit?
hey, I know a lot about computers and that doesn’t make any sense.
Unless!
6+6+6=18 !!!
I’ll keep the old fashioned password, thanks.
Oh just give me a break!
Before I left the Contractor Biz the ‘running joke’ in the office was that they were going to get us chairs with USB connectors so that if we left the chair the P.C. would lock up. The other ‘joke’ was the ankle manacles.
Seriously people, these people have gone around the bend in their quest for control over people.
Miss Dugan is apparently unfamiliar with the phenomenon of a woman forgetting to take her pill...
You’re so right.
I can’t understand half the stuff I read about almost everyday.
They’re quest for control is insatiable.
You’re so right.
I can’t understand half the stuff I read about almost everyday.
Their quest for control is insatiable.
I just use PASSWORD. Who would figure that out?
Does this mean I’ll need to replace my tattoos every 90 days?
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