Location Sensitive Passwords.
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 12/17/2014 1:00:00 AM
Sometimes you need a strong password. Sometimes you don't.
Wouldn't it be great it you didn't have to enter a password to unlock your devices whenever you were home... but still had the security of a complex password whenever you were away from home? That's what a location sensitive password would do.
Let's face it. If you share your tablet at home, you don't need a complex password. In fact, if you have a small child, you may not want to create a password in the first place.
However, if you leave your home, a good password is essential.
So, you need to decide... do I want to make to make this device easy enough for a todler to use, or secure enough for the real world? I guess you can't have it both ways. Maybe you can.
A location sensitive password could allow you to simplify or remove your password when you are home, but make it more secure when you are away.
Here's how it would work. You create several profiles, based upon your WiFi connections, and designate a password unique to that location. So, as long as your device is home, you could have a different password, or even none, but it would be something entirely different when you connect from someplace else.
Because each WiFi router has a unique MAC address, the router itself becomes your password.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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