That could be your next passcode thanks to a British firm that has just unveiled a new security system that replaces the traditional four-digit personal identification number (PIN) with a sequence of symbols.<\/p>\n
Intelligent Environments claims its “emoji security technology” is easier to remember, offers greater security and, crucially, is a lot more fun than numbers.<\/p>\n
The company’s research revealed that one-third of the 1,300 people polled have forgotten their PINs before, and “64% of millennials regularly communicate only using emoji.” Putting the two together seemed the logical conclusion.<\/p>\n
Offering 44 emoji to choose from generates 3,498,308 permutations, as opposed to 7,290 non-repeating digits, making emoji passcodes 480 times more secure.<\/p>\n
“Forgetting passwords is because the brain doesn’t work digitally or verbally. It works imagistically,” self-professed memory expert Tony Buzan says. “Images are the prime way of remembering anything you want to remember.”<\/p>\n
The people behind the new technology recommend building a story to help you remember the sequence. For example, use an imaginary day that begins with a baby’s cry, continues with a cycle to work, takes in an apple at lunch and finishes with a beer: baby, bike, apple, beer. The company is currently in talks with banks to roll out the technology over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n
Cybersecurity expert Professor Alan Woodward has praised the system, saying the technology would force hackers to run through a greater number of cycles to break the code. However, he added that “it still makes sense to have some sort of two-factor authentication.”<\/p>\n
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Source: Mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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