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brief
"I have a bad memory, am I still secure?"
One week pressure project looking at the issues in security in
today's digitalised world.
Coordinator Alexander Grünsteidl, IDEO.
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Pims |
proposal | background |
After a long discussions about
the benefits and restrictions of biometrics, mnemonics, object
based identification, we took a step back, and considered the
framework within which these security measures were exercised.
It became obvious to us that the security risks today are not
simply a third party trying to intercept your communication with
a service. We cannot know for certain of the service's trustworthiness.
Hence, we concentrated on protetcting one's identity not only
against third parties, but also against services, whose motives
are suspicicous to you.
Pims is a software agent that lives in user's personal computer's
web browser. It contains a portfolio of pseudo identities, to
whom one can easily attach different services' details, and use
them to access those services afterwards. They also automatically
generate hard-to-break passwords and logins, something that rarely
happens when you are left to decide the details alone.
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proposal: PIM's - Pseudo Identity Management
System
together with Magnus Edensvard
The service attaches an online service's details to automatically
generated or human manipulated pseudonym's account. When the same
service is accessed again, the character remembers all the important
information, and provides the user with access.
Instead of predictive typing or password
remembering in a web browser, the pseudonyms are characters. Depending
on the kind of service it is logged to, the character can have
its own email account that you do not have to worry about, if
you do not want to, it can be used in several sites, maybe all
relating to the same subject, and it also can be shared with friends
and family.
QuickTime presentation (1.6Mb)
The
pseudonyms recide in the bottom bar of the browser window.
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We imagine these pseudo identities
to become more associated with certain kind of services, and hence
they develop a sort of personality for themselves. When interacting
with these characters, they begin to communicate with each other,
enabling the user to defragment aspects of his personality, and
translate them to the features of the characters.
Pims encourages healthy suspiciousness,
letting people have another thought about to whom they want to
give their personal details, and to whom they only want to reveal
as much as is necessary.
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