"A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when those words are passwords you can’t remember."
This is the tag line for a new web business trying to solve a problem that many of us are faced with day to day. A dilemma exists for people who find themselves signing on to more and more password protected sites and services everyday - signing on to social networking sites, bank account and credit card statements and everything in between. The dilemma is whether or not to stick to one password for every site, thereby putting not one but all of your accounts at risk of being compromised in an identity theft situation, or to create multiple, unique passwords for all of ones online accounts at the risk of spending 15 minutes typing in 100 different username/password combinations every time you want to check in on your bank balance.
Vidoop offers a password "keychain" for all of the accounts you log into online! Vidoop then protects your passwords by creating an image based authentication system (obviously not another username & password combo!). In other words, Vidoop provides "a visual grid of images that fall into particular categories. When you first create a myVidoop account, you pick 3-5 types of images (e.g. birds, skyscrapers, flowers, cars). Then whenever you need to authenticate with myVidoop, you simply type the letters of the images in a randomly generated grid that fall into your chosen categories."
And of course, this approach is way more secure than your traditional online password process as it is impossible for a computer to distinguish between the encrypted pictures.
www.vidoop.com
2 comments:
This is definitely one solution to a problem that I always have - remembering passwords to different sites. However, I'm wary of putting all my passwords onto a website that someone can hack into and easily steal my identity. What makes this site so secure when the databases of many other large, and supposedly secure, websites have been hacked into? I actually prefer keeping a file on my hard drive even though I won't have the convenience of accessing my list remotely.
I gave up trying to remember my passwords a long time ago and now keep them all on a nice, convenient, and easily accessible spreadsheet (protected by a password). I recently read an article however, that criticized similar behavior on the grounds that keeping such resources without attempting to actually remember that much has an adverse effect on our cognitive growth and capacity. I looked around for a reason to maintain my path of least resistance though and found a great justification for forgetting in the Stanford Report:
*Forgetting is helpful
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/june6/memory-060607.html
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