Passwords are broken – the future shape of biometrics
David Ferbrache · Biometric Technology Today · 2016
The headline assertion – that ‘passwords are broken’ – was one of my somewhat hopeful security predictions for 2016, which KPMG was good enough to publish. The comment was somewhat tongue in cheek, but the truth is that passwords have become one of the weakest links in our security chain, compounded by our inability to memorise the long and complex passcodes demanded by our security systems (see box on page 6).