Final Year Project Brainstorming

[Choon Ming]

Brian,

 

That was a great idea about Captcha there. It somewhat slipped through my
mind when I'm in the midst of research.

 

Thanks

 

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Brian
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Final Year Project Brainstorming

 

An interesting and always relevant topic is passwords. Within your lifetime
you will see a paradigm shift in passwords. What will it be? Will there be
an arms race between those who wish to steal your identity and those who
develop new authentication mechanisms? Why is it that biometric solutions
haven't taken off so far? The answer is that they decrease the usability of
the device without increasing the benefit to the user. Users like weak
passwords because they are easy to remember and they can use the same
password for all their applications. They are not aware of the ever
increasing threat of identity theft and any awareness effort is likely to
fail. How can you help users have safer computer experiences, perhaps
restricting yourself to the online domain only, without them noticing?

 

Another timely topic is captcha's. It's very likely that between now and
your senior year every single currently existing captcha will be cracked.
Captcha's are a very interesting case because they are a weak example of a
turing test. They are meant to test that the person passing the test is
indeed human. This topic is a perfect juxtaposition of security, usability
and artificial intelligence research. Perhaps the most secure captcha is
also the most usable. What is it? Design it.

 

 

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Choon Ming <choonming2002 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Tence,

I am required to create a new system based on my my major not just
informational ( e.g. a secure method to transfer files etc)

 

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Tence T. George <tence at ieee.org> wrote:

Well do you have to any heavy duty programming or is it informational?  

 

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