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What Do You Think Of The Windows 8 Picture Password?
One of the coolest things that we’ve seen come from Windows 8 is the new picture password log on feature. For those of you who don’t know, this is a new method of logging in. All the user has to do is draw a pattern and tap in a certain ...
Microsoft Goes Into Detail On The New Picture Password In Windows 8
One of the most noticeable and exciting features in Windows 8 was the new picture password to log onto Windows 8. This new feature allows a user to log in by simply drawing a pattern on a picture, making it easy to remember and use. It’s quite cool and innovative ...
Optimizing picture password security
We wanted to talk a bit more about the security of picture passwords in a follow up post based on some of your comments. Jeff Johnson, the Director of Development for the User Experience team, is particularly interested in the math and security of this feature and authored this post ...
Signing in with a picture password in windows 8
Picture password is a new way to sign in to Windows 8 that is currently in the Developer Preview. Let’s go behind the scenes and see how secure this is and how it was built. One of the neat things about the availability of a touch screen is that it ...