'Password' you swallow in a pill

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Always forgetting your password? Tech company Motorola is working on some rather unusual solutions!

They've unveiled an electronic 'tattoo' that sticks to your skin. It has a circuit so gadgets can identify you.

Another experimental idea is a password pill you swallow - that transmits a signal to devices outside the body.

The pill doesn't need batteries because it's powered by stomach acid - but Motorola bosses say it won't be on sale any time soon.

So you'll have to keep remembering those passwords for now!
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Seriously? Powered by stomach acid... I'm getting too old for this shit, that old I can't remember my fekkin passwords.
 

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I like the key tattoo thing.

I'm getting too old for this shit, that old I can't remember my fekkin passwords.
That's why I keep all my passwords on a post-it note on my monitor.

And a copy on the monitor at the library.
 

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Watch the video on that linked site, about 19 mins in as the web site suggests, fascinating, but fekkin scary.
How do we know someone isn't feeding us these already? D:

Have you ever read "Let there be Lite"? Soon it will not be SF any more :unsure:
 

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The other day I saw A really neat way of remembering stupidly long passwords:

Pick a short word / number etc
Look at your keypad as if it's a slate / board
'Write' out your word on the keypad in a way you will only know.

For example, for the password 'GBA' it could be something like:
98741236 14789532 14863
or
987412365 7415632 14789635

etc. And you quickly have a super secure (in terms of brute-forcing, maybe add some letters if you want) password.
 
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All those sci-fi films and future tracking humans is gonna be true but thankfully I'm already 1/3 of the way through my life and I hopefully will be dead long before its fully implemented but even so its so scary how stuff like this is already being developed, I worry for the future.

Also when coming up with a password, think of your mothers name, your pets name and the year you were born and use none of them. If you have trouble remembering a password, why not re-arrange your games and dvds so it spells out the password with the first letter of the game, for instance I set my PS2 games out like this:

Red faction, Indigo prophecy, Clock tower 3, Killzone, Red dead revolver, Okami, Legacy of kain, Lego star wars
 
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The other day I saw A really neat way of remembering stupidly long passwords:

Pick a short word / number etc
Look at your keypad as if it's a slate / board
'Write' out your word on the keypad in a way you will only know.

For example, for the password 'GBA' it could be something like:
98741236 14789532 14863
or
987412365 7415632 14789635

etc. And you quickly have a super secure (in terms of brute-forcing, maybe add some letters if you want) password.

You can limit any bruteforce tool to use a specific set of keyboard strokes and you just told the world how to hack yours - by using numbers only. :P

EDIT: Nevermind, I get your method now - you meant a phone-like keypad. :P

As for the technology, here's an even better idea - implant yourself with a password that even you don't know. You won't leak it - it's in you. :P That's pretty nifty stuff that could potentially cut down on electronics theft - what good to a thief is a phone that only one user can use? Of course there's ways to flash electronic devices and go around passwords, but it's still a huge deterrent as not everyone owns the necessary tools or has the know-how to "white wash" the stolen gadget.
 

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The other day I saw A really neat way of remembering stupidly long passwords:

Pick a short word / number etc
Look at your keypad as if it's a slate / board
'Write' out your word on the keypad in a way you will only know.

For example, for the password 'GBA' it could be something like:
98741236 14789532 14863
or
987412365 7415632 14789635
etc. And you quickly have a super secure (in terms of brute-forcing, maybe add some letters if you want) password.

I don't get how that works. How do you write something on a keypad "in a way that only you know"?
 
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