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The passwordless present: Will biometrics replace passwords forever?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 875500" data-attributes="member: 69368"><p>"When it comes to securing your sensitive, personally identifiable information against criminals who can engineer countless ways to snatch it from under your nose, experts have long recommended the use of strong, complex passwords. Using long passphrases with combinations of numbers, letters, and symbols that cannot be easily guessed has been the de facto security guidance for more than 20 years. But does it stand up to scrutiny?</p><p>A short and easy-to-remember password is typically preferred by users because of convenience, especially since they average <a href="https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2017/05/dont-need-27-different-passwords/" target="_blank">more than 27 different online accounts</a> for which credentials are necessary. However, such a password has low entropy, making it <a href="https://blog.malwarebytes.com/glossary/password-guessing/" target="_blank">easy to guess</a> or <a href="https://blog.malwarebytes.com/glossary/password-cracking/" target="_blank">brute force</a> by hackers."</p><p></p><p> <a href="https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2020/04/the-passwordless-present-will-biometrics-replace-passwords-forever/" target="_blank">The passwordless present: Will biometrics replace passwords forever?</a></p><p></p><p>What do you think the future of biometrics v passwords v new alternatives is for proving your ID?</p><p></p><p>Personally, I'm loath to give up my fingerprint, iris scan, DNA etc; if it gets stolen I can't replace them, iris replacement surgery does not appeal! I think that passwords and MFA are here for some time still.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 875500, member: 69368"] "When it comes to securing your sensitive, personally identifiable information against criminals who can engineer countless ways to snatch it from under your nose, experts have long recommended the use of strong, complex passwords. Using long passphrases with combinations of numbers, letters, and symbols that cannot be easily guessed has been the de facto security guidance for more than 20 years. But does it stand up to scrutiny? A short and easy-to-remember password is typically preferred by users because of convenience, especially since they average [URL='https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2017/05/dont-need-27-different-passwords/']more than 27 different online accounts[/URL] for which credentials are necessary. However, such a password has low entropy, making it [URL='https://blog.malwarebytes.com/glossary/password-guessing/']easy to guess[/URL] or [URL='https://blog.malwarebytes.com/glossary/password-cracking/']brute force[/URL] by hackers." [URL="https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2020/04/the-passwordless-present-will-biometrics-replace-passwords-forever/"]The passwordless present: Will biometrics replace passwords forever?[/URL] What do you think the future of biometrics v passwords v new alternatives is for proving your ID? Personally, I'm loath to give up my fingerprint, iris scan, DNA etc; if it gets stolen I can't replace them, iris replacement surgery does not appeal! I think that passwords and MFA are here for some time still. [/QUOTE]
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