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A global study from IBM Security examining consumer perspectives around digital identity and authentication today, found that people now prioritize security over convenience when logging into applications and devices.
Generational differences also emerged showing that younger adults are putting less care into traditional password hygiene, yet are more likely to use biometrics, multifactor authentication and password managers to improve their personal security.
With millennials quickly becoming the largest generation in today's workforce, these trends may impact how employers and technology companies provide access to devices and applications in the near future. Overall, respondents recognized the benefits of biometric technologies like fingerprint readers, facial scans and voice recognition, as threats to their digital identity continue to mount.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/01/29/authentication-today/
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Tuesday January 30 2018, @07:04PM (2 children)
I had similar ideas, until I started running into logins that had MAXIMUM password lengths, and disallowed certain special characters. I am flabbergasted at the audacity of a bank to tell me that my password is too long, yet that is exactly the issue I have. And I have bigger problems with other banks, so it is not as simple as shopping around. Instead, I get to adjust my password policy fifty different ways for just as many websites, and then depend on not being the slowest gazelle in the herd.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @07:40PM (1 child)
The logins that have maximums generally have minimums. Plus odd rules. You get where this is going, right?
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Wednesday January 31 2018, @06:32PM
No, I don't see where you're going with that. Let me hazard a wild guess:
They're trying to make passwords ridiculously difficult to manage because they want to implement an alternative system, like an implanted bio-chip, which they can use to track our every move and sell it to Joe Public as the salvation of his precious TV tropes intake time. And then all your souls are belong to them. Sound about right?
Mind you, I wouldn't put something of the sort past them - I've heard those sorts of noises made in an unironic, non-satirical manner. You've just given very few clues as to your meme du jour.
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