Would you be happy to say goodbye to passwords?

Sorry to say Ian its already been done in the US thats why I posted previously on this subject that talk of using voice recognition as a means of accessing banks etc is a lost cause . I dont want to post how they do it but if forced by disbelief I will , its technical.

Senior- because it compromises the website and gives it a bad reputation when an easy password is hacked . It doesnt matter if its a “no consequence ” website its reputation goes down the drain . It happened to Apple Cloud , but it was caused by some US actors using very simple passwords so Apple Cloud got hammered in the media when the said actors had their private info broadcast over the web.

As Duncan says it is not a good idea to use something that others might readily guess, e.g. “password”.

The trick is to use something that you can easily remember but not easy for others to guess.

Rules for scrambling the letters can also be remembered and used.

For example “p455w0rd” would be better than “password” – here I’ve replaced letters by numbers, if a letter has more or less the same shape as a number.

“p455W0rd” would be better still because I’ve now made the 2nd (not the first) letter upper case.

A further improvement would be “p455W0r#d” – here I’ve added one of those dreadful special characters after the 3rd letter.

I still wouldn’t recommend starting from “password” but “p455W0r#d” would be much harder to hack.

Long passphrases are much better too, e.g. one might start from “Peter Always Seriously Studies Which? On Rainy Days” or something like that. If however, you are useless at typing, like I am, you won’t want to have too long a phrase, because you’ll need to avoid problems with typing errors.

Interesting Kenneth ,your right of coarse we kid ourselves on we have freedom –we dont ,more and more society -aka- the general public are spied upon , checked up on, investigated and constantly watched . Just look at American, to which most people here seem to look up to, its one of the most heavily repressed nations on earth . Try demonstrating like we do here , heavy police presence who attack the demonstrate calling them “Commies ” and “Left Wing ” large numbers badly injured , 100,s jailed the marches blocked/stopped , everybody photographed. Just look at the shooting of black people in the US its far out of control , town lampposts with surveillance cameras and sensitive mikes , your mail intercepted (and yes I know personally of US citizens who have had that happen ) FBI breaking your doors down at 3AM , all your actions on the web watched . I have a dozen government organizations on file who constantly covertly snoop on US citizens and its all coming/came here . Why ? yes as you say “encouraging crime ” well the HMG /US government dont say that they say one key word –Terrorists- and by saying that they have both introduced Draconian surveillance methods , but hold on . havent they been doing that for many decades –yes ! but now its done legally and officially . You would be surprised who paid for set up supplied logistics to iSIS looks after them in hospital , re supplies them but your not going to hear about it on the UK media. Its all done for a cause. So yes its time our government was brutally honest with its citizens at least I could accept that.

You mean ones like Last Pass Gillie that was hacked? Guess where Last Pass store them ?- the Cloud by no means the super “invulnerable” place its made out to be. The good points are its stored in the one place and you don’t have to remember a whole string of passwords –the bad points are –its stored in the one place and needs only one password to access it. This is down to computer security, a Keylogger makes it all look stupid if your computer is inheritably unsafe or your sloppy and don’t take care then it’s going to get hacked eventually. I am certainly not trying to frighten you just being realistic and telling you what the adverts WONT tell you. Where do I keep my passwords ? in a Reporters Notepad written down –try hacking that. I could add a lot more but maybe Which will do a convo on it so I will save my comments for the future.