Let's try to guess the password (Password) that you use. QWERTY1234; 12345; Qwerty? aBc123 or trustno1 or qzpm123? If you use any of the above passwords, change them immediately: your password is on the list of the 25 worst passwords. If you change it don't use genius 111111 or letmein.
Dignified passwords (passwords) have a problem: it's impossible to remember them.
More than a decade ago, Bill Gates predicted the end of passwords, but even today there are still people who have a post-it stuck on their screen that says "1234567". Meanwhile, billions of codes have been leaked and added to dictionaries using brute force applications.
But all indications are that passwords could end. Microsoft has confirmed that it will "slash" passwords in Windows 10 by introducing new options, with the support of Fast Identity Online Standard (FIDO).
This means that you will connect with your face, voice, iris, fingerprints, or a dongle, depending on which method your company chooses.
But it's not just about computers: Apple also uses the Touch ID from iPhone 5 and then (as well as iPad Air 2 and Mini 3) by replacing fingerprint passwords. Samsung with the Galaxy S5 also brings a fingerprint reader.
While no technology is completely safe, fingerprint readers have improved a lot in recent years: Apple claims that we should try 50.000 different fingers to find one that will fit randomly. He also argues that the method is much safer than the probability of one in 10.000 disclosing a four-digit password.
It is much easier to forget a password than it is to forget our fingers or our eyes. The Apple and Microsoft systems supported by the FIDO standard have a different architecture to the old password model: fingerprints or other biometrics data, αποθηκεύονται τοπικά, γεγονός που καθιστά πολύ πιο δύσκολο για τους hackers να αποκτήσουν μαζικά εκατομμύρια διαπιστευτήρια από κάποιον server storage as is the case to date.
Η movement which will take us away from passwords but should be done very carefully as we are talking about the use of biometrics.
Passwords are abstract (unless you're one of those idiots who use their first name as a password) and impersonal. Biometrics data, on the contrary, are very personal, and we all know the insatiable hunger of the intelligence services. These kinds of data make this information irresistible targets.
