On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 3:19 PM Karl Semich <0xloem@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 3:01 PM coderman <coderman@protonmail.com> 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.)