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A Password So Secret, You Don't Consciously Know It

Posted June 06, 2013 1:15 PM

From New on MIT Technology Review:

Researchers work to develop passwords so secret that only your unconscious mind knows them.Some efforts to replace traditional letter-and-number passwords rely on gestures, wearable devices, or biometrics.

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06/06/2013 2:01 PM

A password so secret, you don't know it.....Know what? ..Your password.....What password?.....Exactly....

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06/06/2013 2:14 PM

I'm ahead of the curve here.

I already have passwords I don't know.
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06/06/2013 5:48 PM

If it really happens (course not), I see people going: Uh... thus making this uncertainty gesture the most common and vulnerable password ever.

Go use your 200 IQ on something more useful, dorks.

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06/07/2013 1:21 PM

If we eliminate obvious passwords, we could reduce the Internet traffic by ~50% because >50% of the users likely wouldn't remember their passwords. Now thats a laudable achievement.
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