Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it’s not very good security. The major downside of the picture password is that drawing a finger across a photo on a touch screen is easy to video record from a distance. Designers of Windows 8’s picture login have made a traditional password an alternative, perhaps in acknowledgement of this shortcoming. “It’s more like a Fisher-Price toy than a serious choice for secure computer access,” says the inventor of RSA’s SecurID token.”]

