Move over '123456': passwords go high-tech too


  • TECH
  • Monday, 17 Mar 2014

DIFFICULT AND CUMBERSOME: Passwords have proliferated so much that it's a daily struggle for users to cope with so many of them. — ©AFP/Relaxnews 2014

HANOVER, Germany: Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns or even their own body parts to identify themselves. 

Developers at the world's biggest high-tech fair, CeBIT, say that one of the biggest frustrations of having a smartphone and a computer is memorising dozens of sufficiently airtight passwords for all their devices and accounts. 

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