Let your theme song be your password

Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 2:01 PM EST

Cliche demands that every romantic couple has its own song. A new proposal from security researchers could see that same song be the couple's password too.

We all have too many passwords to remember, and most of them are insecure anyway. Those we rarely use are the most problematic, so two researchers from Carleton University propose we be allowed to choose "digital content such as photos, mp3s, and videos" instead.

At New Scientist.

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