I’ve briefly mentioned this subject about a week ago in Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #93, but after a second thought, I’ve decided that it deserved more attention.
You all know that passwords are relatively easy to steal, especially because we don’t pick difficult ones. So computer scientists from Rutgers University-Camden have developed graphical passwords to enhance your computer security.
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@ 10:18
Graphic Havoc—Better Passwords
Roland over at SmartMobs brings up the interesting concept of graphical passwords. Text passwords are relatively limited and insecure (read: easy to guess), as they often are individually meaningful or otherwise easy-to-remember phrase. Graphic images …
@ 13:20
Better security, but less accessibility for the blind.
@ 21:53
Then perhaps you could make the same paswords out of stitched musical nodes for the visually impaired, with click points for music, each click point representing two second sound bites of different tracks, tagged by the person. Selecting memorable musically-triggered bits of a song or track, or, bits of multiple tracks to come together in a sort of deconstructed musical mashup time signature password. like an arrhythmiatic sonographic audio architectural blind man’s color ’sound game.’
To access something using this password the user would simply have to twitch every time the right moments in each track selection were played, the system would intuit the user’s stimulation, (or the person would just have to hit a button when the important clips came up) and gradually puzzle pieces of a mysterious surgically replayed frankenstein track are confirmed as a password.
its like spinning records, dj’ing your password online.
maybe?