Windows 10: Beware of these "Easy Password" apps

Hi there

Biological methods are one possible scenario - but I'm sure we've all seen some Hollywood movies where they "Bad Guys" cut off thumbs, eyes etc to fox the biological detector.

Probably the safest way would be to have a DNA scanner and reader --not sure how practicable one of those would be. However at the present time with our current state of technology this would probably be the safest method as DNA is unique or so rare that more than one individual has identical DNA that you could ignore any matches.

I think that even Identical Twins don't have exact DNA copies. Obviously they'd share most of it - but 100% identical ??

http://geneticsawareness.org/learn-a...ally-identical

Any Biologists / Doctors here --I'm an Engineer so I could probably understand how this stuff is measured or even how one would create a machine to measure it -- but exactly what I'd be measuring !!! over to others.

Cheers
jimbo

 

sorry for you and your family then.
as you live in germany, i will let you know that about 1.2 million people there suffer from alzheimer, of which 95% are older than 60.
with germany having like what? 80 million? inhabitants that makes 1.5% of germans not fit for using the method of remembering passwords as safest method (well it would still be safest... but also not practical if they themself forget it right after setting it *chuckle )

that on the other hand leaves 98.5% of the inhabitants able to remember passwords in their head.
and even if not all the 98.5% are fit to remember because of other diseases like dementia.
the BIG majority of people from 6 - 60 are definitely eligible to use their brains to store passwords.
and for those people who can do it, it stays the most safest way.

again sorry for your family not being able to be part of that.

there are different kinds of twins. monocygotic twins technically have 100% same DNA.
BUT! through punctual mutations during their lives the DNA changes and those punctual mutations can be found if you have extracted and visualized the complete DNA of each of the twins. so in the end they start with the same DNA at insemination and from then on punctual mutations may apppear.
by the way, although monocygotic twins basically have the same DNA (or lets be accurate "start with the same DNA") they dont have the same fingerprints. EVEN if there were no punctual mutations!!!

and to your method - you mean DNA scans instead of fingerprint scans?
i mean both can be tricked.
DNA through acquiring sweat, urine, hair, spit or semen of the person with access
fingerprints through... well we all know that anyway cuz of CSI:Miami *Wink

 

Hi there

One thing that HASN'T^ yet been foxed is the sensitivityof a Dogs nose -- so perhaps some type of Odour detector might work -- Dogs can even recognize by smell a Human even when that Human has been plastered with cheap scent / de-odourants. Some Police dogs can even still detect an individual after the poor dog has been "pepper sprayed".

I'm sure there must be some unique individual characterisation(s) which would be almost impossible to replicate. If we can send a "Washing Machine" size object accurately to the outer reaches of the Solar System I'm sure designing some hardware to match / acquire a unique trait about an individual can't be THAT difficult. !!!

Cheers
jimbo

 

Dogs smell your pheromones, can't mask that. They're as individual as finger prints .