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Imagine sitting down at your work keyboard, typing in your user name and starting work right away — no password needed.
That’s a vision that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Defense Department, wants to turn into a reality. It will distribute research funds to develop software that determines, just by the way you type, that you are indeed the person you say you are.
sounds_sound · 4415 days ago · link ·
And if they made the keys pressure sensitive too, the computer would recognize me right away. I've been told by my coworkers that I am a very loud mouse clicker.
It would be great if this could work across the board for all the sites, places etc, that you need to type in a password. Too many things on the internet and elsewhere require a password these days or differing usernames that I find it impossible to keep track of them. I am constantly having to reset my accounts to get a new password because I can't remember the one I made. Something like a master key that gives you total access to your entire internt profile, perhaps you just need a password to log into the internet and from there you remain as one identity.
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newgameplus · 4414 days ago · link ·
That's exactly what LastPass, KeePass, Keychain and other password managers are for. Well, without the one identity part. As for that, I would say Facebook, Twitter and OpenID want to be everyone's singular identity online.
thenewgreen · 4415 days ago · link ·
Do you think that eventually the camera on your computer will just see you and know it's you? No logging in needed at all just go to a website and your likeness will direct you to the appropriate account? Seems a reasonable assumption regarding the direction things are headed in. People don't seem to care much for privacy these days.
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