We could accept “Passwordless” authentication if it comes with a transparent statement that it brings ‘better availability’ at the cost of losing security, helping people where availability and convenience, not security, matters most. The problem is that the “passwordless” promoters are adamantly alleging that the passwordless scheme increases the security…

Does ‘Digital Computing’ sound warm-hearted to us? — Probably NO for most of us. Do we feel cold-hearted when we watch the pictures of our pets taken when they were puppies and kittens? — Probably NO for most of us. What if you pick up such heart-warming pictures as your…

“We can accept “passwordless” and “biometrics” authentication schemes without losing sanity where the public are all accurately informed that the merit of “passwordless” and “biometrics” authentication is better availability obtained at the cost of largely losing security.” The above is a briefest summary of our understanding on “passwordless” and “biometrics”…

Today’s topic — Austria to combat deep fakes amid increasing use of the technology https://www.euractiv.com/section/disinformation/news/austria-to-combat-deep-fakes-amid-increasing-use-of-the-technology/ An alarmingly large number of people seem to be misled to believe that a default password should prevent a bad guy, who has somehow compromised their biometrics, from taking over their accounts. They may well take it for granted that their default password must work as an additional protection…

and we would find it very hard for many of us to remain sane; what we hear would be “Removal of the army contributes to national defense” “What has to depend on a password kills the password” “PIN (numbers-only weak password) is not the password” “A default/fallback password is not…