Technology Obsession and Common Sense

‘PIN’ is an abbreviation of ‘Personal Identification Number’, which is unexceptionally used as an authenticator, not an identifier.

‘Password’ is defined by the central police agency as ‘Personal Identification Code’ in a country where I was grown up.

Quite a few people utter such a word as ‘Password Identification’ here and there.

This awkward phenomenon is found not only in the general public but among the ‘professionals’ of cyber security and identity management although the difference between ‘identification’ and ‘authentication is unmistakably clear.

How on earth would it be possible to mix them up? Our hypothesis is that the field of cybersecurity and identity management is too heavily populated by single-mindedly technology-obsessed people although digital identity is a problem of philosophy as well.

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