Thinking Password

I am thinking…of my password to login in to my workstation. Yup! that day may not be too far. Wired News reported current research being done to make this science fiction stuff a reality. You may be able to use your thoughts as a password for better security. The theory behind this concept is that everyone has a distinct set of brainwaves even if they are thinking of the exact same thing.

I have always fantasized of hooking up our brain to the Internet – ‘wirelessly’, of course. Scary as that might sound, better be prepared when that day finally arrives. Tap just above your head to check if you have any new email or heck, just think of that particular email address and it checks itself. I bet that would be irritating sometime when you are in middle of something and you get a notification that ‘you got mail’. Your partner instantly kicks you in the right (for her; wrong for you) place asking you to get back to what you were doing. But now, you’ve lost the moment. Now if that’s a fantasy I have to get some help.

Also, have those researchers given a thought to the passwords that people use? The email clients mostly at work require you to have a password not found in the dictionary and make it mandatory to include a special character and numerical characters. Now how the heck are you supposed to think of ‘as$24tye‘?

PS. Don’t bother checking that password for any of my email or websites. I just made it up.

Update: If you don’t have a ‘thinking password’ yet, then make sure your choice for a password is pretty strong.

“Thinking Password” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=1297] was published Thursday, April 27th, 2006 at 3:48 pm by Patrix, filed under Internet, and tagged as web technology. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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http://palscape.wordpress.com BongoPondit
Quite unimaginable now – but it could certainly happen. Would lead to a whole different ballgame of social interactions.
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode ‘The Millenium’:
KRAMER: You know, in the year two-thousand, we’ll all be on speed-dial. You’ll
just have to think of a person, they’ll be talking to you. It’ll be like, wup (judders and puts his hands to his temples, as if receiving a call on a ‘mental phone’) getting a call here.
KRAMER: (to Jerry and George) Hey, it’s Newman. (to ‘mental phone’) Hey, how you doing, Newman?
Jerry begins mouthing ‘I’m not here’ and making gestures indicating he doesn’t want to talk to Newman.
KRAMER: (to ‘mental phone’) Oh, you wanna talk to Jerry?
Kramer leans toward Jerry, as if to allow him to use the ‘mental phone’. Jerry throws his arms up in exasperation.
Of course it is funnier when you see Kramer in action.
http://ipatrix.com Patrix
Bongo, of course at one point in time, sending voice and images thru air would have seemed unimaginable or even crazy. Hey, don’t you think that Seinfeld has a scene for every wacky scenario in at least urban life that we can think of? I haven’t seen this episode but I can surely image Kramer there.
http://palscape.wordpress.com BongoPondit
Patrix,
Wholeheartedly agree with Seinfeld’s relevance in everyday urban life. I am a huge fan of the show (got the DVDs for the first six seasons recently!) and it is a rare moment when I can’t invoke some phrase or a quote from the show or find a parallel with one of the episodes. :-)

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