Nowadays, we have to deal with annoyances which made by technology such as spam email and dozens set of accounts and password for different websites. It is annoying when people get tons of spam email in their inbox just like James mentioned, “unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight.” (James, p 1) Meanwhile, when people are using different websites they have to sign up a new account for each particular website and they have to follow different rules to create their password. It is almost impossible to memorize all the account name and password by our brain, and it is risky to set all the same account name and password, especially the one for purchase. Therefore, people have to found a way out to deal with this annoying problem.
(Photo Credit: Jeremy)
To solve this problem some companies in the industry, instead of creating a new account they choose to let the user log in with a popular social networking account such as the Facebook account. By authorization the website to achieve the public information even private information from the social account, the user can use one account to access a small amount of website they need without creating a new account. Another way to solve this problem is HTTP cookie. Cookies store all the account and password information even other private information, including email address, home address, birth date, etc. However, social accounts are not supported by all the website we use, cookies are not convenience to transfer in different drives and Brower dependencies.
One of the most successful ways to solve this problem is the fingerprint identification in Apple. Apple has the most security product in the world such as IPhone. FBI Director James B. Comey sharply criticized, “Apple and Google on Thursday for developing forms of smartphone encryption so secure that law enforcement officials cannot easily gain access to information stored on the devices — even when they have valid search warrants.” (James, p 1) There is an app called “1Password”, it is a cross-platform application, so people can use this application on PC, Mac, Linux/Unix, IPhone, and android. We can use this application for all website we want. We can store all the information such as logins, credit cards, identities even secure note in this application. Sometimes, people spend lots of time when they need to create an unusual password due to the website. However, 1Password is able to generate a new password for people and they do not need to even remember this password. People just need to remember the password for this application, then they have all the access to all the account. Therefore, I can save tons of time by using by using this application to solve all my accounts and security problems. Furthermore, I can use this application to deal with my security problems in my project, so I can spend more time to focus on the other parts.
Word Cited:
Timberg, C., & Miller, G. (2015, September 25). FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones. Retrieved March 13, 2016, from http://www.cpsk12.org/cms/lib8/MO01909752/Centricity/Domain/5012/FBI blasts Apple Google for locking police out of phones.pdf
Veitch, J. (2015). Dot Con: The Art of Scamming a Scammer. London: Quadrille Publishing.
Zawodny, J. (2006, February 15). Password Insanity. Retrieved March 13, 2016, from http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006309.html
kun Su 