This past Wednesday, we had a lecture about password protection and how to protect our personal information on the internet. What was eye-opening about the lecture for me was the fact that eventhough we oftne think that our password is strong and secure, there are several techniques that can be used to break the password.
In connection to this lecture I started to think about what new possible advances would be in internet security. Several technologies such as fingerprint scanning and voice recognition have been used to some extent in business settings but their use on personal and home computers has been minimal. It would seem logical that there would eventually be a program written to easily break all types of codes, rendering passwords virtually useless.
So what is next? Several corporations have fallen victim to information stealing due to their password being hacked and have had their information leaked out into the public. But new measures of internet and password security need to be taken in order to prevent attacks like these again. Of course, only time will tell what measures these are but it only seems logical that actual physical security measures unique to individuals, such as the ones mentioned earlier, will become the norm for internet and password security.
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