"Oh! My password's getting hacked! My password's getting hacked!"
-PJ
Posted on 09/18/2014 6:40:54 AM PDT by 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.
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I have Afib. I would never access anything.
It’s good to have a strong password of course but that’s not how most of the “hacking”’is done these days (by cracking passwords). You’ll note for example in the latest buzz worthy story, celebrity iCloud pictures were “hacked” when the theives used intelligence and savvy to simply reset the iCloud password to their own. In other words they guessed the answers to the security questions associated to the accounts to gain entry to said accounts. Questions like “what’s your favorite color” or “your mother’s maiden name” have answers that through Facebook (or other public posts) or through public record searches, an enterprising hacker can guess rather easily.
These “security questions” are actually making online activity less secure ironically. Strong password creation (such as you posted) should be the norm and no way (or at least a very complicated way) to reset one’s password should be available. The “security questions” have been a step back in security.
Blame TIME magazine.
Yes.
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“I have Afib. I would never access anything.”
BOL
Last year, my primary care doc found a heart murmur that I apparently had as a child. The murmur went away as I grew up and was not heard again by my docs, sport physicals, pre op physicals, numerous Navy and corporate physicals.
So he had one of the local cardio docs order an echo and followup last August. The doc after that visit wanted a repeat this August and to see him again in this September.
Since then, I had major foot surgery which has enabled me to get back to walking our hills a mile or more once or twice a day. I also, went on a modified Paleo diet with mimimal carbohydrates in the diet.
Between the exercise/walking and diet, I have lost the 35/40 pounds gained due to not being able to walk and exercise due to a bad foot.
My heart rate resting and post exercise is back to being low, and my BPH is back to normal.
My wife besides being a family practice RN was trained as a coronary ICU nurse and has great ears re stethoscope skills and heart problems. She told me, she couldn’t pick up the murmur or any other problems when she listened to my heart.
So I had a new echo done in August and saw the Cardio Doctor the first week in September. My wife was watching him as he looked at the results. She said he looked like some hit him hard on the fore head. It took him a couple of minutes to say, “You are doing great” Keep on doing what you are doing, and I will see you in a year and no echo is needed for a couple of years.
My FP was pleased and backed off of his pushing the statins as their levels had been decreased and the report from the Cardio Doc. He still says that he hears a murmur. My wife joked that he has a set of sonar ears instead of ear drums.
So if I used a previous heart beat/trace as a password, like you I couldn’t get in my protected sites.
“The “security questions” have been a step back in security.”
Amen! One our younger relatives is a genius in computer coding, language and other aspects of computer use.
Over a decade ago, he started warning all of us about password protection. He hated the so called security questions. He said most of us had one mother with only one surname, our birthday was unique to us and so was our first car and its color, the name of our first dog and so on. He knew that the stores that got this data sold it or had minimal onsite protection.
Then, he was warning not to put this data down for discount cards at Safeway, special deals from internet companies and any other company, including your insurance companies.
If I do fill out the requests, my birth date is 1/1/1900. My mother’s madian name was Claus, my grandfather’s first name Nick. My first dog’s name was Spot. My best friend was Adam.
Some companies like our insurance company gave me some grief until I told them I would go to Esurance if I had to deal with an online computer instead of a human and give up my vital personal data.
That is what makes it so secure!
Yeah,my cardio echo doesn't show anything. I'm 59 and can still backpack about 20-24 miles a day with a 45-50 lb pack.
Yet I know when my Afib kicks in. Usually when I forget to have taken my meds.
If I die on the trail, they'll find me with the childproof bottle in my hands.
“Yet I know when my Afib kicks in. Usually when I forget to have taken my meds.”
Sounds good and you have a built in warning system re your AFB.
“If I die on the trail, they’ll find me with the childproof bottle in my hands.”
BOL! Be sure to remove all of the so called protective wrappings your bottle came in. They can be harder to get off than the childproof bottle caps.
Is this heading quickly to the Mark of the Beast foretold in Revelation?
Trust me - your heart is not located in your palm or skull. At least I hope not.
Bonus points awarded!
"Oh! My password's getting hacked! My password's getting hacked!"
-PJ
interesting
Yeah. When I'm having a stroke!
Meanwhile I'm trying to get rid of a crapload of gnats which have invaded my home.
Running around setting the gnat traps will probably give me a heart attack, so I won't have to worry about the stroke.
It’s all pointless.
So you use your heartrate, your thumbprint, your brainwave, etc, whatever.
It sends a signal and when it matches the other signal you have access.
So all it takes is a captured signal.
Ie, a recording of someone’s heard that they used to get access previously.
In other words you don’t need to have a eye scan if you have a very realistic picture of the eye scan.
Just take your morning baby Aspirin, if you can get the cap of the bottle.
My belief is that the "mark of the beast" is not something we carry on us (like a SSN card or a barcode stamp or digital money or an implanted RFID chip) but rather is something that we carry within our being, i.e. the way we think (mark on the forehead) or the way we act (mark on the hand). For this reason IMO Paul's command makes all the more sense that we "take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ" (1 Cor 10:5).
‘“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.’
You can always make an emergency call even if it is not your cell phone.
Look at the front page of your cell.
Mine asks for my passcode but at the bottom of the page has a emergency link.
Yours should as well. (I wouldn’t advise experimenting to see if the emergency link works ;-/ )
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