Obama's Cyber Czar Wants to Replace Passwords With Selfies

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/obama-s-cyber-czar-wants-to-replace-passwords-with-selfies-20141009

BY BRENDAN SASSO
National Journal
October 9, 2014

The Obama administration's top cybersecurity official wants to get rid of 
passwords.

"Frankly, I would love to kill the password dead as a primary security 
method, because it's terrible," said Michael Daniel, the White House 
cybersecurity coordinator, during a discussion Thursday hosted by the 
Center for National Policy and The Christian Science Monitor.

So what would replace the password? Daniel suggested that "selfies" would 
be one possibility. A device could scan a photo of a person's face and 
grant access only to the right one.

"You could use the cameras on cell phones, which are now ubiquitous, so 
the selfies are used for something besides posting on Facebook," Daniel 
said.

Fingerprint scanners, which are already in use on iPhones, are another 
possibility, Daniel said.

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