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Say Goodbye to the Password
From: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323585604579008620509295960
By ANDREW BLACKMAN Sept. 15, 2013 5:17 p.m. ET
AuthenTec Inc., a developer of fingerprint-sensor technology,
Yubico Inc. Like the traditional hardware tokens that generate random numeric passwords and which companies have used for years, the Yubico devices generate temporary passwords to be used as a second form of authentication. But instead of having to read the password off the token and retype it, employees can simply plug the token into a USB port or touch it on a mobile device using near-field communication risk-based authentication. This technology sifts through masses of user data from various groups at a company to establish "normal" behavior, then assigns risk scores to each user. Test subjects in the research wore a headset that measured their brain-wave signals as they imagined performing a particular task, and the researchers were able to distinguish between different people with 99% accuracy. London-based PixelPin Ltd., meanwhile, wants to replace passwords with pictures. Choose a picture of your spouse, for example, and log in by clicking on four parts of her face in a sequence you've memorized
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