Comments on: Toss Your Credit Cards and Other Security Musings – By: Sherri Hammons – CIO, IQ Navigator https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/toss-your-credit-cards-and-other-security-musings-by-sherri-hammons-cio-iq-navigator Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 04 Jun 2017 18:54:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Philip Raymond https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/toss-your-credit-cards-and-other-security-musings-by-sherri-hammons-cio-iq-navigator#comment-264385 Tue, 07 Jul 2015 22:40:12 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=15284#comment-264385 I much prefer Passfaces. It is a brilliant and very easily implemented access/authentication mechanism that works perfectly—even with older or non-tech-savvy users. It beats most 2-factor authentication schemes and without almost zero user training.

I wrote about it in my Blog. http://awildduck.com/?p=2268 — I will add a posting here at Lifeboat.

]]> By: Philip Raymond https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/toss-your-credit-cards-and-other-security-musings-by-sherri-hammons-cio-iq-navigator#comment-264384 Tue, 07 Jul 2015 22:37:03 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=15284#comment-264384 In theory, Sherri Hammons open data security model makes a lot of sense. Biometrics, geographic authentication and multi-factor authentication can thwart garden variety data hackers. But in practice, I don’t think that her model cuts it…

The hackers would return to social engineering on a grand scale. Rather than spoofing digital credentials, they would deceive grandma and grandpa into using their real-world authentication credentials toward their needs.

They can do this today, of course, but I have an unscientific hunch feeling that it would become easier, if we no longer relied on memory credentials (card numbers & passwords) to gain access to wealth and web sites.

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