Regina Dugan:
Dugan shows a pill that can be ingested and then battery-powered with stomach acid to produce an 18-bit internal signal. After that, the swallower’s whole body becomes a password.
But how does it show you ads?
What the fuck, Google!
Regina Dugan:
Dugan shows a pill that can be ingested and then battery-powered with stomach acid to produce an 18-bit internal signal. After that, the swallower’s whole body becomes a password.
But how does it show you ads?
So, she’s working for a company that now belongs to Google…
Why would you need this stuff?
Do they really think that tattoos and pills will be the way to go in authentication?
In a few years, we will have smartphones with fingerprint sensors, smartwatches and maybe also Google Glass-like devices.
The easiest form of authentication would be the fingerprint sensor, you put your finger on the home button and the phone knows you’re its owner.
Then there are also smartwatches.
I like to imagine that the iWatch will (also) feature a fingerprint sensor, that way it can add this feature to older iPhones (4S and 5) by communicating via Bluetooth 4.0 too, increasing the number of people who are able to use this feature.
And if not, the iWatch will surely be able to pull the information that its owner just verified his fingerprint with his smartphone and store it for later use.
As you are wearing the iWatch on your arm, the iWatch will know when it’s worn and as long as you don’t remove it from your arm, you’ll be authenticated as the guy who authenticated his fingerprint days or maybe weeks ago.
The power of sensors!
No need to re-authenticate if there’s a chain of events that tell the iWatch it was never taken off, like your pulse or a sensor that checks if somebody opened the strap of the iWatch.
And with Google Glass, there will be a future revision that can scan your retina once and as long as you don’t remove the device from your head, there’s no way the real user can not be the one whose retina was verified, as sensors that can notice when you removed the device from your head will be implemented in that version.
These three types of devices will be used to authenticate its user and they will be able to broadcast this authentication to other devices, like your Mac.
Tattoos? Sure, people like to have chips implanted into their body to login to Facebook. And then whatever device they will use to access Facebook will need to be able to read that tattoo/implanted chip.
Ingested pill?
What will happen if i want to access facebook, but just took a dump and the pill is on its way to the sewage treatment?
You are the ad.
My prediction:
In one month, Scoble will be so eager to use this that he will swallow a bottle of these pills before Google gets the chance to tell him that he should take only one. One week after he will post an x-ray of his stomach on Google+. Two weeks after, he will use the “openness” of the pill to learn how to tweet and his gut will have its own Twitter account.
18-bits?! That’s only about 262K possibilities. Pathetic?
Fingerprints, on their own, are a terrible form of authentication. Most fingerprint readers are easily deceived via means accessible to anyone with internet and motivation.
I heard they were working on some new ways of authenticating users, beyond passwords, but never would I have ever expected a swallowed pill.
I like the over the top thinking and doing though.
Not intrusive enough. They should have started with suppositories.
This is a tech demo, not a product launch. Those who mock this have neither the imagination or the smarts to come up with something like this. Akin to bleacher bums calling out a baseball hitter for striking out when they could never even hit a slow straight pitch.
Pathetic is when someone mocks a single, short paragraph describing technology they can neither understand nor come up with themselves.
Basically, everything that Apple does or is reported to be doing is a great idea. Everything else sucks. Ya, that’s a great perspective.
LMBO!! 😀
That’d be too much fun for one company to have. They need open source suppositories. 😉
I’m forward thinking enough to know that ingestable password authentication is a stupid f’n idea.
And you think no one knows this?
You whole comment is essentially ridiculous because you’re saying that this a path humanity might or should take while saying its just a tech demo.
This isn’t the Matrix and I’d doubt most want a product that lives in your body for the rest of your life so a company can track you unless you have major surgery.
The bigger issue is that you lack common sense.
You don’t know me.
I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS