On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 3:19 PM Karl Semich <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 3:01 PM coderman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > when thinking of usability of security features, i always wonder about > > diminished mental states - how do you handle authentication when the mind > > is unstable? > > > > (biometrics work, but they cannot be the whole piece. e.g. scanning a dead > > finger...) > > I've handled this a lot and physical objects and password storage > software is helpful.
people also develop really personalised phrases or experiences. like the woman experiencing visions of murdering her children might never forget a password that said "I don't want to kill my kids." > > Re: biometrics, crazy people have specific muscle motion patterns they > settle into that you might be able to profile in combination with > something else. of course non-crazy people have this too. > > (psychosis is scary. it causes slow well-documented brain damage. > the antipsychotics cause a different kind of brain damage, kind of a > pick-your-situation thing except where you have to pick one of the > antipsychotics. they don't like to talk about those things.)
