Considering that the cheapest mobile phone available today has more processing power than Nasa needed to put men on the Moon, there remains one part of even the highest-spec modern computer that has never been upgraded: the user.
We are all familiar with the modern requirement for passwords to include upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols but based on a survey reported in The National, this has led nearly one in five internet users to keep a written note of their password. An astonishing 6 per cent wrote it on a sticker near their computer.
Given that humans will always be the interface with computers and Human Nature Version 1.0 is only upgrading at a Darwinian pace, isn’t it time to make passwords more human-friendly? At least until Skynet becomes self-aware, let passwords be memorable so we don’t feel tempted to write them down.
