»Friday, July 18, 2003

This is hilarious!

Someone at Microsoft Research has come out with a really great system for generating and remembering complicated passwords using inkblots! The idea is that as with the Rorschach tests, each person interprets a random inkblot in a different way. So this program generates a series of random inkblots and all you have to do is take the first and last letters of your mental description of each image and then combine them to form your password. To enter your password, all you have to do is look at this sequence of inkblots and you can mentally generate your letter sequence. It involves keyboard typing, so that someone looking over your shoulder need not be able to see what you are typing (unlike other image based methods where you click on specific parts of the image).
The hilarious bit is the discussion about this technology at slashdot! Just look at the 20 inkblots given on Microsoft's page and then read the interpretations given by /. readers! Boy, I killed myself laughing!


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