Biometric Password?

Hitoshi Kokumai
2 min readMay 18, 2023

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What Are Password Security and Protection? cisc.com

I came across this article — https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/what-are-password-security-and-protection.html

I can’t be indifferent to the title “What Are Password Security and Protection?” and I was immediately attracted to the word ‘Biometric Password’.

Some people have been touting ‘biometrics’ as ‘ alternative to password’ or ‘password-killer.’ Here we see ‘biometric password’. Now, “A is B” and “A is an alternative to B” at the same time?

Anyway, biometrics is very helpful indeed — unfortunately to bad actors, not good citizens, as visually dissected in this 2-minute video “Biometrics in Cyber Space — ‘below-one’ factor authentication” https://youtu.be/wuhB5vxKYlg

I wish that CISCO had added a caveat that authentication by biometrics could be recommended only where cybersecurity is a peripheral and trivial matter.

Well, as for the general recommendations on the hard-to-manage password protection, I summarised our view here — “Complex Problem of Complex Password” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_it-happens-heres-a-guide-on-how-to-activity-7064441690941493248-p6B-

From ‘Password Fatigue’ to ‘Fatigue-free Password’

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Hitoshi Kokumai
Hitoshi Kokumai

Written by Hitoshi Kokumai

Advocate of ‘Identity Assurance by Our Own Volition and Memory’, Inventor of Expanded Password System and Founder of Mnemonic Identity Solutions Limited in UK.

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