About a month ago, we posted some Thoughts on Biometric Passwords. Yesterday, Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog unveiled how vulnerable fingerprints are… in photographs.
It hit me that in the age of digital photography, a properly motivated photographer could probably find fingerprints on all kinds of surfaces, and capture them as expertly as Dale did. I [...]
Multiple choice Pop Quiz:
Have you ever stumbled across your partner’s phone and read the text messages?
a. Yes, why wouldn’t I?
b. No, that’s a complete invasion of privacy!
c. I may have been tempted.
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Have you ever read your partner’s email?
a. Every day.
b. How would I? He keeps his passwords in a password manager so that not even the CIA
could [...]
We just discovered a great little game called Anti-Phishing Phil (thanks to this blogpost).
The game was created by CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). And it has done a pretty good job of turning internet security training into a game.
The game works like this: you are a fish named Phil who lives in the [...]
Wolfgang Schauble, Germany’s interior minister and adamant supporter of biometric authentication, seems to be waiting for the day when biometric technology will be available on a large scale and passwords will be a thing of the past.
But recently Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest hacker group caused a fuss when a recent issue of Die Datenschleudere [...]
Seems everyone has been talking about password meters lately. And word is spreading that a password like ‘thomas123’ just might not fit the bill anymore.
If you think – “No one cares about stealing a password from lil’ol me” - you’re right.
PassPack is built to make sure that not even we can read your passwords. But - how can that be? How does it work?
Folks are often frightened away by reading uninvited technical explanations. They underestimate themselves, hear cryptography and host-proof hosting and think - “oh no, thats too hard! run - run!”
We have therefore introduced [...]
How good are different browsers at number crunching? That question is near and dear to our hearts here at PassPack.
