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Windows 8 Picture Password is ‘Fisher-Price Toy’ Says Father of 2-Factor Authentication

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.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130528/windows-8-picture-password-is–fisher-price-toy–says-father-of-2-factor-authenticat.html

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