You won't need WiFi for this password, buddy boy, this one gets transmitted through your body where, presumably, it cannot be hacked. (Science Daily: Secure passwords can be sent through your body, instead of air)
Now they're taking Wearable Weird out into a world of obsessive strangeness that's really starting to defy any sense of 'what the fuck problem are you trying to solve?'
The ostensible problem identification is the lack of security in transmitting a password through open air. Therefore, if the password is transmitted through your body then that's a security problem eliminated ... or amplified to ridiculous levels since what are you doing using the Internet to secure the locks on your house in the first place. Does the Internet prevent criminals from breaking the windows to come inside and kill everyone who lives there?
(Ed: the Internet is probably the reason someone is coming to kill everyone in the house!)
Good point, Dagwood.
There are a few fundamental points we notice about security and I spent a large part of my life helping to keep secure large mainframe computer installations. We did well and, to my knowledge, in thirty years we were never hacked. Micros got hacked constantly but the mainframes didn't. (Note: part of that was in keeping mainframe security algorithms so hare-brained no-one could figure them out)
- the more talk we hear about security, the more places we hear getting hacked and the funniest was stealing all those email addresses from Yahoo which might be the most worthless source of them anywhere since it was usually used as a junk mail address for sites which insist on an email address but you don't want to give them one.
- the more money spent on security, the less there is of it as witnessed by the "Enemy of the State" article from earlier this evening.
- Microsoft conditioned the people to believe security on a computer probably won't work so the mindset across the country is the security will probably fail anyway.
The only value we see in this science is in a fat contract with Apple since anything this ridiculous for an iPhone and you know Tim Cook will buy it in a heartbeat.
Now they're taking Wearable Weird out into a world of obsessive strangeness that's really starting to defy any sense of 'what the fuck problem are you trying to solve?'
The ostensible problem identification is the lack of security in transmitting a password through open air. Therefore, if the password is transmitted through your body then that's a security problem eliminated ... or amplified to ridiculous levels since what are you doing using the Internet to secure the locks on your house in the first place. Does the Internet prevent criminals from breaking the windows to come inside and kill everyone who lives there?
(Ed: the Internet is probably the reason someone is coming to kill everyone in the house!)
Good point, Dagwood.
There are a few fundamental points we notice about security and I spent a large part of my life helping to keep secure large mainframe computer installations. We did well and, to my knowledge, in thirty years we were never hacked. Micros got hacked constantly but the mainframes didn't. (Note: part of that was in keeping mainframe security algorithms so hare-brained no-one could figure them out)
- the more talk we hear about security, the more places we hear getting hacked and the funniest was stealing all those email addresses from Yahoo which might be the most worthless source of them anywhere since it was usually used as a junk mail address for sites which insist on an email address but you don't want to give them one.
- the more money spent on security, the less there is of it as witnessed by the "Enemy of the State" article from earlier this evening.
- Microsoft conditioned the people to believe security on a computer probably won't work so the mindset across the country is the security will probably fail anyway.
The only value we see in this science is in a fat contract with Apple since anything this ridiculous for an iPhone and you know Tim Cook will buy it in a heartbeat.
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