Also Disinvest from Security-Destroying Products
US must invest in emerging tech to keep pace with China, Govini report says
Adopting emerging tech, if valid, is certainly important. No less important is to disinvest from the self-claimed security measures that actually destroy security.
What frightens us is that the destruction of identity security is just a click away; Click ‘Yes’ to “passwordless” login and we will lose the protection that the password, whether strong or weak, has somehow provided so far.
We would then be much more vulnerable to the attacks by criminals and rogue regimes on our digital identity than when we were protected by the defense surface of the password, only a part of which makes an attack surface.
This tragic comedy might have partly come from mixing up ‘being not good/helpful enough’ with ‘being bad/harmful’. If we find someone trapped in this pitfall, we should help them awake to it.
For more on this subject, please refer to “LOSS of Security Taken for GAIN of Security“ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/loss-security-taken-gain-hitoshi-kokumai/
Digital identity blogs collected at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/collection-digital-identity-comments-hitoshi-kokumai-posted-kokumai/
