HARD TO SWALLOW: Did you remember to take your password pill this morning? - ©AFP/Relaxnews 2013
Who says we cannot be an iron man??? What a awesome technology.. A pill that help you authentic your password... Believe it or leave it!!! Read this article below to see it yourself. Check it out!!!
Regina Dugan, the former chief of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the current head of Google-owned Motorola's special projects division, is developing "a pill that can be ingested and then battery-powered with stomach acid to produce an 18-bit internal signal," she revealed at the D11 conference.
In other words, a password in a pill. The signal can be picked up by an electronic device and act as authentication that the users are who they say they are.
"It means my arms are like wires and my hands are like alligator clips [so] when I touch my phone, my computer, my door, I'm authenticated. This is not science fiction," Dugan said.
'Wearable' authentication
Another concept that may be a little less difficult to swallow, but is still an idea that might make some consumers' flesh crawl, is a smart electronic tattoo.
"After 40 years of advances in computation, we're still authenticating the same way we did years ago," Dugan said.
"In fact, it's gotten worse, because you don't do it once a day or twice a day, users are doing them 39 times a day and it takes them 2.3 seconds every time they do it; power users do it up to 100 times a day. We're thinking of a whole variety of options for how you could do better at authentication.
"You can start with nearer-term things like tokens or fobs that might have NFC or Bluetooth embedded in them, or you can also think about a means of authentication that you could simply wear on your skin every day - like an electronic tattoo."
To show that these ideas are more than simply pie in the sky, Dugan rolled up her sleeve to reveal an electronic 'tattoo' and explained that it had been developed with a company called MC10 and that it contains embedded sensors and an antenna.
She also suggested that wearing a tattoo was simpler than wearing a watch or remembering to carry a physical token and the idea would appeal to teenagers in particular, if only to annoy their parents.
A common cause
And while her ideas may seem more than a little far-fetched for many, the issue they address, namely personal security on the Web and protection against data breaches and identity theft, couldn't be more based in reality.
A Tripwire survey, published on May 30, shows that in the UK alone, 53% of consumers are worried about the threat of cyberattacks. The study of over 1,000 people also found that 40% feel increasingly vulnerable to such attacks and that they have already suffered a security breach or accept that it is only a matter of time until they do get hacked.
As a pioneer of bringing physical services to the web, Google takes personal Internet safety seriously and was one of the first online companies to introduce two-factor authentication and is constantly working on ideas and devices that will offer web users better protection.
In conjunction with Dugan's appearance at the D11 Conference, tech blog All Things D's annual tech gathering, the search giant has published a detailed how-to guide on its official blog about creating stronger passwords and other hints and tips to keep personal data safe from
Source:http://googleblog.blogspot.fr/2013/05/helping-passwords-better-protect-you.html. - ©AFP/Relaxnews 2013
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