Companies are conspiring to kill the password. Bill Gates predicts its death will come soon. Smartphones and soon tablets equipped with fingerprint and eyeball scanners are the answer. With recent internet security flaws, everyone is asked to change their passwords, and in many sites, it is getting more and more impossible to come up with memorable password. Your password now must be more than 8 characters, with upper case, lower case, numerals, and special characters. Good luck remembering it next time you login. The “Forget Password” became one of the most important features of sites with the complexity of passwords.
Although security experts warn against it, many people still use names that are special to them, significant dates or someone, or favorite things (TV, Movie, object, etc..) to help them remember. Few bother to use password managers and random password generators and have passwords like yQLttMZ1jm!QA3.
But reading the news I couldn’t help remembering my early password choices, and how I choose words that are linked with a memory I wanted to keep, or an object I was attached to. Back then “Remember Me” feature wasn’t there, and you will have to enter the password daily, or perhaps hourly if you are using command line as I did.
Will passwords be missed? or everyone is waiting for it’s death along with ATM Pin codes?
