Dissecting Silence of Digital Identity Professionals
“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” authentication schemes that are touted as security-enhancing schemes by quite a few cybersecurity people and supported by a number of global IT firms.
Well, in a recent post — “We have to live with what we hate? “ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_how-important-are-passwords-in-preventing-activity-6944481616979193856-syqQ
I left the message below in reply to a comment reading “It amazes me why more companies have not chosen to go down this path” with respect to our proposition of making use of citizens’ episodic memory for solid identity assurance.
“People generally tend to listen to loud voices from big players, even where they are very misguided and misguiding. It might possibly take many more hours before those people awake to the fallacy that those big players had put in their heads.
And, perhaps, also to blame are those security professionals who must be aware of the issue of ‘Loss of Security taken for Gain of Security’.
They appear to have opted to stay friendly toward the big players who may well hold the sort of influences on their breadbaskets. They love to talk something else, more grandiose or more philosophical, as a smoke screen for looking away from this inconvenient and embarrassing fact.”
I reckon that few cybersecurity and digital identity conferences and seminars could survive if abandoned collectively by the wealthy sponsors who support passwordless and biometrics schemes. Not listening to us and opting to stay silent might well be a natural response in view of their mental defense mechanism such as cognitive dissonance.
Glimpse of a small hope — These security professionals, if conscientious, might well start to speak up when some other people start to speak up; they would feel liberated from the fear that they get sniped by the revengeful big players.
Ref: “LOSS of Security Taken for GAIN of Security” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/loss-security-taken-gain-hitoshi-kokumai/
I look forward to being refuted.
Digital identity blogs collected at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/collection-digital-identity-comments-hitoshi-kokumai-posted-kokumai/
