How much of our lives do we spend logging in, putting in codes or passwords, or unlocking things? We have codes for our school, gym, music, and athletic lockers. We have school IDs and lunch PINs. We have usernames and passwords for multiple email accounts, blogspot.com, moodle, Facebook, Twitter, turnitin.com, and countless other websites...
It's become nearly impossible NOT to have some kind of jot book to keep all our passwords and information. At what point is this too absurd? It is that much of a security risk to have the same password for everything online?
My prediction: within ten years, Google is going to take over the Internet. Google+/Google Drive already has the power to link almost everything together. Would life be easier with everything accessible with a single username and password? Or would this kind of monopoly be too powerful and risky?
This might be taking it a step too far... but will we ever reach a point where a single finger swipe, pin number, or barcode can register us in everything everywhere around the world? (Has anybody read the Bar Code Rebellion series?)
Singularity among passwords? Not safe, but practical. I mean, most people use the same password for everything anyway. I think this is more of an observation on how little we can trust other people. Why do we need to type in a code to use turnitin? Is someone really going to turn in the wrong assignment for us? No. Is it to make sure you're the only one using it? Yes.
ReplyDeleteBTW, elaborate on what this series you mention is about.
The Bar Code Rebellion series is a few books by Suzanne Weyn. It's been a long time since I read them, but I remember them being about a dystopian future where all humans were branded with a bar code at a certain age, which identified them everywhere and even acted similarly to a credit card. As the title suggests, the series is about a group of people realizing the dangers of this and rebelling against the system.
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