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EGeezer
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Re: Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

Here's yet another article with a proposal to improve authentication security through "visual preferences" or "psychometrics".
said by article :

... Jakobsson has proposed an alternative type of biometrics he refers to as "Visual Preferences".

For lack of a better term I am using the phrase "Mental Biometrics" or "Psychometrics." Whatever it ends up being called, an imprint or a snapshot of a user's personality is taken using a unique mnemonic which is then challenged via an authentication mechanism that uses pictures.

These pictures would be easy for the user to remember, but extremely difficult for a hacker to challenge. During the enrollment process, the user is given a long list of pictures of various objects and activities, and then chooses a series of those which they then have to remember based on what they actually like or dislike. ...

Source;
»www.zdnet.com/for-your-eyes-only···0002338/

I'm ambivalent on this. Although it has possibilities, I'd have to be convinced that this would be widely accepted.


Name Game
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The credit card added to amazon was not stolen. It was made with one of the many available fake credit card number generators. Apparently this is easy because the credit card numbers have conform to a simple checksum that can be calculated with a Luhn algorithm.

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