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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: kinky on 23 March 2002, 12:28

Title: Image based passwords????
Post by: kinky on 23 March 2002, 12:28

what the hell is this?

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-866544.html (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-866544.html)

Title: Image based passwords????
Post by: mskarl on 23 March 2002, 13:17

That is total bs.  what about the blind?  are they going to be able to remember what pixel's to tell the computer to click on?  Not like I have anyidea of how many blind people use the computer but anyway.

I dont think there is any picture that is going to make it easier for me to remember my passwords.  I can't believe that someone actually covered that story.

So when I goto log into my new paid subscription to a site I got to select my fav pic then remember where I clicked on the picture and how many times where?  That is just plain stupid..

well anyway ya I don't think that will ever be real.

Speaking of passwords.  Did anyone read about a company putting a chip in a guy that wouldn't let those bank money transport cars to start unless it  saw that chip that was installed in that guys body?  That's almost scary.

soon M$ will have a keyboard that install's a virus when you touch it that makes you and your computer open to all crackers and makes you intern stupid.  Oh wait.

Title: Image based passwords????
Post by: jtpenrod on 25 March 2002, 21:39

This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas I've heard in a long time. It's not all that difficult to come up with decent, easily remembered passwords. Who's going to be able to remember where, and in what order, they clicked on some image? It's all that much more for someone to forget, and lock themselves out. If this nonsense is actually implemented, you can bet that there will be a lot of very pissed-off sys-admins out there.
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Title: Image based passwords????
Post by: omitsura on 25 March 2002, 10:27

m$ sais

"But those can be cracked
     within minutes with so-called ``dictionary attacks,'' software that is easily
     downloaded off the Internet that systematically guesses words until it finds
     those used in passwords. "
and theoretically in seconds the passwd file can be replaced with the passwd file that you have
 (http://smile.gif)

Title: Image based passwords????
Post by: Calum on 25 March 2002, 16:06

answer:
pick a password that is not in the dictionary.

that was a hard one to think up... d'oh!

Title: Image based passwords????
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 26 March 2002, 01:52

Have a go at this one (http://www.geocities.com/gooseman_uk_2000/mem2.html). The whole web site is here (http://sgoosey2001.cjb.net/).