Soon ,you will be able to log into your smart phone with sweeping gestures or doodling by using one or more fingers.
Researchers from Rutgers University in the US have performed the first study of free-form gestures passwords for smart phones in the field .Free- form gestures passwords allow people to draw a password of any shape with any number of fingers,researchers said.
The results show that free-form gesture passwords are a serious alternative to text or other log-in methods ,especially for mobile devices , they said.Free -form passwords are very suitable for touchscreens , faster to use , easy to remember and most importantly hard to guess.
"preventing people from hacking into your smartphone is a major issue , and it becomes more important because people carry their smartphone every where",Said janne- Lindqvist
from Rutgers University.
"Getting excess to somebody's phone can give a lot of information about that person and make them vulnerable to lots of different kinds of attack."Said Lindqvist .Free- form gestures could be extended to laptops and tablet/laptops combos with touch screens -even doors with touch screens instead of key- locks or swipe cards.They also could expand to access to services over the internet, according to researchers .
Researchers from Rutgers University in the US have performed the first study of free-form gestures passwords for smart phones in the field .Free- form gestures passwords allow people to draw a password of any shape with any number of fingers,researchers said.
The results show that free-form gesture passwords are a serious alternative to text or other log-in methods ,especially for mobile devices , they said.Free -form passwords are very suitable for touchscreens , faster to use , easy to remember and most importantly hard to guess.
"preventing people from hacking into your smartphone is a major issue , and it becomes more important because people carry their smartphone every where",Said janne- Lindqvist
from Rutgers University.
"Getting excess to somebody's phone can give a lot of information about that person and make them vulnerable to lots of different kinds of attack."Said Lindqvist .Free- form gestures could be extended to laptops and tablet/laptops combos with touch screens -even doors with touch screens instead of key- locks or swipe cards.They also could expand to access to services over the internet, according to researchers .
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