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Password manager service LastPass announced last week that they experienced a data breach that exposed users' email addresses, encrypted passwords and cleartext password reminder hints.
Following the good advice to never use the same password twice, and to choose passwords that are difficult to guess (and remember), many people use password management sites such as LastPass. But the problem with using a Web-based third party to store your passwords is that they can get hacked, too.
LastPass certainly took many security precautions, and some of them worked. For example, LastPass never had access to customers' master passwords in cleartext. But they did store other information about users in cleartext, and it's this compromised information that can be used to guess weak master passwords.
cointelegraph.com...
…yet I still have to make sure to include a number and special character in my password.
originally posted by: woogleuk
a reply to: MystikMushroom
Retinal scan or fingerprints, DNA is too easy to obtain...although apparently so are fingerprints ( Hackers recreate fingerprints using public photos ).
Retinal scan is probably the safest, modern tech should be easily able to accomplish this on the cheap.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
at least for PC and tablet/phone based applications, i wonder when they will just do facial recognition. You have a camera pointing right at you while logging in, right?
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: wasaka
TBH, it seems that there is no way around having passwords hacked.
Even biometrics are easily faked. Any biometric is easily faked.
Secure Quick Reliable Login (SQRL, pronounced “squirrel”)
is a free and open-source program designed by Steve Gibson
originally posted by: wasaka
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
at least for PC and tablet/phone based applications, i wonder when they will just do facial recognition. You have a camera pointing right at you while logging in, right?
An artist in Chicago, IL has come up with a controversial way to use 3D printing that is probably eons apart from anything you heard the technology being used for. Leonardo Selvaggio is selling 3D printed face masks that are replicas of his own face, as a way to defy facial recognition and surveillance technology.
The idea arose with Selvaggio’s frustration at being constantly “surveilled”. According to Selvaggio, Chicago is the “most widely surveilled city” in the United States and employs a hi-tech surveillance system of over 25,000 cameras all networked to a single facial recognition hub.
“Working as an artist in Chicago, the most widely surveilled city in the nation, and seeing how it has affect the way I behave and think about public space, I have an overwhelming urge to protect the public from such surveillance. Everyone has a right to privacy,” Selvaggio says.
"In an Indiegogo project dubbed URME (phonetically, "you’re me"), Selvaggio offers three ways to buy his face, all sold at cost. The first is as a photorealistic, 3-D printed and hand-painted prosthetic mask. At a glance, it appears real to cameras and people alike." www.fastcodesign.com...
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
You have a camera pointing right at you while logging in, right?