Glass
20th January 2013, 05:32 PM
Amongst other things Google is thinking about passkeys for improved access control to it's services.
Now GS-US'ers are immediately going to think Mark of the Beast. I got a great laugh out of the 1st comnment posted on this story.
Google working on password alternatives
This post (http://mashable.com/2013/01/18/google-password-alternatives/) was originally published on Mashable (http://www.mashable.com/).
The topic of passwords has made headlines in the past year — from high-profile hacks (http://mashable.com/2012/11/09/twitter-hack-password/) to web users repeatedly not picking the right ones (http://mashable.com/2012/10/23/worst-passwords/) — but Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/) has its sights set on making the login-process much more secure in the future.
How secure, you may ask? Consider logging into Gmail (http://mashable.com/follow/topics/Gmail) with a high-tech ring worn on your finger or a key card that plugs into your computer's USB port.
As detailed in a research paper in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/securityandprivacy) and reported on by Wired (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/), Google is already looking into password alternatives in the form of passdevices. The initiatives have also been confirmed by Mashable.
"We're focused on making authentication more secure, and yet easier to manage. We believe experiments like these can help make login systems better," a Google spokesperson said.
Google is currently running a pilot program with USB cards called Yubikeys (http://yubico.com/products/Yubikey-hardware), which aims to get passwords off computers and the cloud. This means that instead of having Google accounts tied to text, they would be linked with an actual device.
"We'd like your smartphone or smartcard-embedded finger ring to authorise a new computer via a tap on the computer, even in situations in which your phone might be without cellular connectivity," Google said in its research paper.
Link to story (http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/google-working-on-password-alternatives-20130121-2d1tr.html)
1 comment
They could use your credit card chip to do the same thing, no need for a new device. But whether they do or not it will just add another item onto the black market for the criminal types to exploit. The only answer is the proverbial microchip injected under the skin, no doubt on the hand or the forehead as described in Revelations 13 "It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark."
I can see where these security problems are heading.
CommenterBevan of QldLocation
Date and time
January 21, 2013, 9:39AM
Comments are now closed
On ya Bevan. Way to shut down a thread! 1 comment Thead Closed. Maybe he's one of us.
Now GS-US'ers are immediately going to think Mark of the Beast. I got a great laugh out of the 1st comnment posted on this story.
Google working on password alternatives
This post (http://mashable.com/2013/01/18/google-password-alternatives/) was originally published on Mashable (http://www.mashable.com/).
The topic of passwords has made headlines in the past year — from high-profile hacks (http://mashable.com/2012/11/09/twitter-hack-password/) to web users repeatedly not picking the right ones (http://mashable.com/2012/10/23/worst-passwords/) — but Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/) has its sights set on making the login-process much more secure in the future.
How secure, you may ask? Consider logging into Gmail (http://mashable.com/follow/topics/Gmail) with a high-tech ring worn on your finger or a key card that plugs into your computer's USB port.
As detailed in a research paper in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/securityandprivacy) and reported on by Wired (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/), Google is already looking into password alternatives in the form of passdevices. The initiatives have also been confirmed by Mashable.
"We're focused on making authentication more secure, and yet easier to manage. We believe experiments like these can help make login systems better," a Google spokesperson said.
Google is currently running a pilot program with USB cards called Yubikeys (http://yubico.com/products/Yubikey-hardware), which aims to get passwords off computers and the cloud. This means that instead of having Google accounts tied to text, they would be linked with an actual device.
"We'd like your smartphone or smartcard-embedded finger ring to authorise a new computer via a tap on the computer, even in situations in which your phone might be without cellular connectivity," Google said in its research paper.
Link to story (http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/google-working-on-password-alternatives-20130121-2d1tr.html)
1 comment
They could use your credit card chip to do the same thing, no need for a new device. But whether they do or not it will just add another item onto the black market for the criminal types to exploit. The only answer is the proverbial microchip injected under the skin, no doubt on the hand or the forehead as described in Revelations 13 "It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark."
I can see where these security problems are heading.
CommenterBevan of QldLocation
Date and time
January 21, 2013, 9:39AM
Comments are now closed
On ya Bevan. Way to shut down a thread! 1 comment Thead Closed. Maybe he's one of us.