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December 10, 2012

Storing Passwords Subconsciously

Justin McLachlan, Popular Science


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Hristo Bojinov wants you to forget your password. More precisely, he wants you to never really know it in the first place. Bojinov, a computer scientist at Stanford, and his colleagues have developed a computer program that can implant passwords in a person’s subconscious mind--and retrieve them subconsciously too.

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TAGGED: subconscious, memory, cybersecurity, passwords

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