Passwords could be a relic of the past if this Intel technology takes off
rkball.
Oh, great. Now if I'm on a case with Jack Bauer and the baddies need my password, they're gonna cut my whole hand off... Fortunately, Jack will be able to retrieve it and sew it back on using his teeth and the wires from his smartphone. So, I guess I'm OK with this.
sauropod.
I was thinking the same thing but what if the had a photograph of your palm would that work?
mike.
except, once you log in with your device, the "login" gets transmitted via an encrypted message to the site, which can be mimicked and hacked eventually. Also multiple users per device occur so the tech would need a repitoire of multiple users. Eventually that repitoire can get hacked as well....all to say good idea, but it will never catch on
Bobbo.
The movies depict technology as the weak point for security, but it's really the human factor that's the weak link. As long as the site you're going to has HTTPS then there's very little to worry about. It's extremely difficult to decrypt Transport Layer Security technology and isn't really a common issue. What are common issues are those that connect wirelessly to a router without any encryption, mistakenly picking up spyware viruses such as key loggers, falling for phishing, etc.
mitch.tux.
Exactly, it just has to be figured out. But I think the services would deal with the authorization, not the machine so that they can be accessed from different devices. @Bobbo, SSL has nothing to do with this, he's leaning more on dictionary or brute force attacks. As for man in the middle attacks, if the same message format is used across all the different services which seems to be suggested, then one success gives the hacker access to all of your services.
Autochthon74.
@!http://goo.gl/oJb8k
McGuilty.
Interesting technology.
Ninja.
This problem has already been solved by 1Password.
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