While reading my many RSS feeds I stumbled across an interesting article about the ubiquitous google.
Google have come under fire in the past for caching too much. Perhaps this article highlights why. For me it also highlights just how easy it is for people who wish to cause harm, to obtain the information that they want.
Knowing that you can just punch in an MD5 hash into google and have a high probability that you will get a positive result is scary.
This also reminded me of a book I read recently, Hacking Exposed, a book well worth reading.
Hashes and how passwords are encrypted into such hashes has been the subject of several Forensics labs and to be honest I am starting to think that passwords, although cheap to implement, are fast becoming obselete, but what is making it obselete? because as far as I know there is no direct replacement technology out there.
So what should replace it? This is an open question as I would like to hear other peoples ideas.
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An interesting topic of discussion, if passwords were to become obsolete I would imagine facial, voice, retina or fingerprint recognition would probably be the top dogs to take the crown. Who knows, possibly multiple types of security checks would be put in place.
ReplyDeleteI believe you have seen the film Gattaca, maybe the device they use will become true in time. A sample (drop) of blood pricked out of the finger that will quickly scan and identify the person which permits them access that way.
Jordan