This week is all about authentication, and I have two related articles about authentication:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/amazon-is-asking-indians-to-hand-over-their-aadhaar-indias
and
https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-new-captcha-test-upload-a-clear-photo-of-your-face/
In short, Facebook is testing a captcha test that requires the user to upload a selfie to authenticate, and in India, Amazon has required that customers use their Aadhaar (biometric unique identifier, similar to our SSN) to authenticate for tracking packages.
Both of these moves are significant because they are huge and growing platforms (FB and AMZN) – a policy move like this signals to other companies and sets industry standards and precedents. We have discussed in other classes how biometrics aren’t accepted as standards for authentication yet, this will no doubt have an impact.
Fraser,
I do believe protecting usernames and passwords very important to insure the continuity of any business. We will continue seeing new methods to access our accounts. In my opinion, some arts to produce and design new login methods will be very helpful to break down the algorithms that attackers develop everyday to attack people.