PayPal Wants To Integrate Password with Human Body
You would have been holding a number of online accounts for different
services, but how many of you hold a different and unique password for
every single account?
Probably a very few of you. The majority of people have one or two
passwords that are quite simple and easy to remember and comfortably
manage on their own.
However, you need not worry as the Future of identification would not rely on Passwords, according to PayPal’s global head of developer evangelism Jonathan Leblanc.
Neither it will depend on the old Biometric identification technologies, such as Fingerprint scanners and IRIS scanners, Rather depends on something More Secure and Easier to Use…
...Embeddable, Injectable and Ingestible Devices
Yes, the next generation of identification for mobile payments and other
sensitive online interactions will depend on embeddable, injectable,
and ingestible devices, completely replacing passwords with the
identification of your body.
KILL ALL PASSWORDS
LeBlanc has recently started giving a presentation titled "Kill all
Passwords" at various security and tech conferences in the United States
and Europe.
In the presentation "Kill all Passwords," LeBlanc is claiming that the future generation will be represented by "true integration with the human body."
By True integration with the human body, LeBlanc means…
...instead of using "antiquated" external body functions such as
Fingerprints and IRIS scans for the identification of online users,
internal body functions such as Vein and Heartbeat recognition are used.
And the embedded, injected and ingestible devices will allow these "natural body identification."
These devices include:
Brain implants and attachable computer systems that "put users in charge of their own security," LeBlanc told WSJ.
And when he talk about Ingestible devices, he mean devices that could be
powered by your stomach acid, which will run the batteries of those
devices, LeBlanc added.
But, Why Killing Passwords?
As we have reported many times, the human nature to keep passwords for
their online accounts is easy to guess and break, and according to
LeBlanc, it is the right time to replace the traditional username and
password verification concepts and methods.
But, when we could use more accurate and secure method, so why sticking to traditional methods?
Identity verification methods, such as thin silicon chips embedded into
the skin, could results in an accurate and unique identity of a person,
according to LeBlanc.
These chips can have in-built ECG sensors that could help monitor the
unique electrical activity of a person’s heart, and communicate via "wireless wearable computer tattoos."
Moreover, ingestible capsules can be used to detect and analyze glucose
levels and other unique internal parameters of a person’s body as a
method to identify the actual identity of that person.
PAYPAL IS MOVING A STEP FORWARD
PayPal is also working with developers to build these kinds of
futuristic ID verification devices, such as heartbeat recognition bands
and vein recognition technology.
However, this does not mean PayPal is thinking to adopt these new
biometric verification technologies; rather the company just wants to be
at the forefront in the research of this field.
As LeBlanc said, "I can’t speculate as to what PayPal will do in the
future, but we’re looking at new techniques – we do have fingerprint
scanning that is being worked on right now – so we’re definitely looking
at the identity field.
PayPal Wants To Integrate Password with Human Body
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