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Pentagon replaces the password
« on: March 03, 2015, 12:10:47 PM »
Maybe they have a good idea.
Pentagon plans to replace the password
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Punching the correct code into a computer can't verify your identity. It simply shows that someone remembered – or stole – the right combination of letters and numbers.
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Every time he logs on, the system would use the stored profile to determine whether the person at the keyboard is actually the soldier who is supposed to be using that computer. If the user’s patterns of behavior deviate too much, it would raise red flags to the system operator or automatically shut down the soldier’s computer.
Another method...
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The New York Institute of Technology is working on a way to use people’s linguistic patterns as they type as a way to identify them – for instance, how person revises sentences and how long they take before correcting typing mistakes, and the amount of time they pause before beginning a new sentence.
So my computer will , at last, remember who I am?  :o

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    Re: Pentagon replaces the password
    « Reply #1 on: March 05, 2015, 03:40:59 PM »
    That sounds pretty amazing and very Bladerunner-ish