Quick-Fix for Preventing Re-Use of Passwords

Hitoshi Kokumai
2 min readSep 20, 2022

“School chat app Seesaw abused to send ‘inappropriate image’ to parents, teachers” https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/16/seesaw_inappropriate_image/

“This is why we don’t reuse passwords, kids” — This is what this reporter says, well, absolutely as a sad joke: “ Hey, Kids, you must do what we adults are unable to do!”

Some people might think of removing the password altogether as the quickest and easiest solution. This approach might well appear to be the very best for the people who are of the view that “‘not good enough’ is ‘bad’ and ‘whatever is bad should be removed’” and “‘login with a token alone’ is securer than ‘a login with a password + a token’”.

We have a comic about this approach — “Entangled thinking makes everything more Entangled” https://www.mnemonicidentitysolutions.com/Comics/Comic2.2.html

Not happy with the above approach? — You could refer to “Quick-Fix Solution when EPS is Not Available” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_official-british-army-twitter-and-youtube-activity-6951354977126600704-uHyr

Still too hard for kids? — Then, wait for the arrival of Expanded Password Systems solutions with which Kids would only need to re-cognize KNOWN pictures as their passwords for making a safe login.

Website — https://www.mnemonicidentitysolutions.com/

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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.