Passwords soon be a thing of the past

Your Facebook, email and even your bank account are protected with a password. Taking into account that 43.8% of passwords are names or dates, do you really think your information is protected from others?

Experts believe not. And so passwords are set to become a thing of the past. Neither the strongest passwords are sufficient to ensure the protection of increasingly intimate data that is stored on the network, and it is time to make the leap to a new level of security.

But what is the alternative that can offer greater reliability replacing passwords? There is still no union on the matter, but the range of options ranging from the reading systems fingerprints present in many of the phones that are launched on the market recently, until such complex systems as the iris scanner. As reported in TechCrunch, what is clear is that it is time to relieve passwords.

It is unacceptable that large firms continue storing in its database passwords for users, and that the only thing that takes it to cases like the theft of more than one billion passwords by a group of Russian hackers , that of the Amazon hacked accounts, PSN and Xbox or many others to account for.

Currently, large companies have already started to become aware of the issue and  it is increasingly common to offer the ability to encrypt user data. In fact, data encryption makes access to information even to the authorities, which led to a controversial debate. It’s no secret that mobile encryption is a concern to the Government.

For those who do not know, encrypting the data completely shield the privacy of a user, as it gives you the ability to create a password that is then necessary to decrypt the data. This password, in principle, can not be known by the company that manages the service.