Your Body, Your Login
A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has found that the way you move your phone to your ear while answering a call is as distinct as a fingerprint. You take it up at a speed and angle that’s almost impossible for others to replicate. Which makes it a more reliable password than anything you’d come up with yourself. (The most common iPhone password is “1234.”) Down the line, simple movements, like the way you shift in your chair, might also replace passwords on your computer. It could also be the master key to the seven million passwords you set up all over the Internet but keep forgetting. — Chris Wilson
The original article was posted in the latest Time magazine Innovation Issue which features a couple of other amazing innovations that can expected in future. The extract is from the Freakonomics blog. Needless to say this is as scary as it is exciting as this could potentially expose us to more risk in terms of robberies etc. but then again that is my movie-cliched brain taking over (people stabbing out your eye to access your bank account or needing to now hold you at hostage or knife-point for you to allow them entrance to your house or safe by dancing in front of a camera) at the same time I find it pretty exciting that technology is advancing at such a rate. Personally I am quite keen on the advent of Near Field Communication.
