In case the email is NOT flagged for phishing

Hitoshi Kokumai
2 min readFeb 23, 2021

“No phish for the likes of you, thank you very much! Google finds email villains are picky about demographics, country” https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/10/google_phishing/

The report reads “When an email is flagged for phishing, our priority is to keep our users safe. We look at many security signals, and malicious links is one of them, before taking appropriate action — one of which may be account suspension.”

What can we do when the email is not flagged?

Why not consider providing citizens with an image-powered defense layer?

Ref: “Detection of Phishing by Episodic Image Memory

Key References

Digital Identity for Global Citizens

What We Know for Certain about Authentication Factors

Image-to-Code Conversion by Expanded Password System

Summary and Brief History — Expanded Password System

Proposition on How to Build Sustainable Digital Identity Platform

Additional References

Account Recovery with Expanded Password System

External Body Features Viewed as ‘What We Are’

History, Current Status and Future Scenarios of Expanded Password System

Negative Security Effect of Biometrics Deployed in Cyberspace

Removal of Passwords and Its Security Effect

Availability-First Approach

Update: Questions and Answers — Expanded Password System and Related Issues (30/June/2020)

< Videos on YouTube>

Slide: Outline of Expanded Password System (3minutes 2seconds)

Digital Identity for Global Citizens (10minutes — narrated)

Demo: Simplified Operation on Smartphone for consumers (1m41s)

Demo: High-Security Operation on PC for managers (4m28s)

Demo: Simple capture and registration of pictures by users (1m26s)

Slide: Biometrics in Cyber Space — “below-one” factor authentication

< Media Articles Published in 2020 >

Digital Identity — Anything Used Correctly Is Useful https://www.valuewalk.com/2020/05/digital-identity-biometrics-use/

‘Easy-to-Remember’ is one thing ‘Hard-to-Forget’ is another https://www.paymentsjournal.com/easy-to-remember-is-one-thing-hard-to-forget-is-another/

Identity Assurance And Teleworking In Pandemic https://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/identity-assurance-and

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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.