Motoral Password Pills

Josef Reuther

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The article "A Password Pill?" found in Upfront Magazine's issue from January 13, 2014 talks about a new pill created by Motorola. This edible password vitamin, which is actually a tiny chip reacts to the acids in a persons body, which activate the chip. The chip sends signals to your computer and phone that let you in without one having to provide a password. I believe these pills can prove to be beneficial, however also could be harmful if gotten into the wrong hands.

One piece of evidence that corroborates my claim about these password pills is that having these pills is most likely very efficient and practical. According to the article "the average person logs in a password about 39 times a day, and it takes about 3.2 seconds each time." The password pill can save the average person so much time if they are able to avoid having to login a password so often. Other biometric authentication those that then your body into a password are already on the market for instance Apple's new IPhone the 5s uses ones fingerprint to log in. Other apps such as FaceCrypt use ones face to sign in. Personally I believe that password pills are very efficient forms of technology, and that when they do officially hit the market that they will be used by consumers.

Although these password pills do seem to be very efficient if they are gotten into the wrong hands it could turn such a pill into a threat. These pills have the potential to revolutionize cyber bullying if someone by accident takes the pill of another person for instance they then have the ability to log into that other persons phone, computer, all social networks, and more this ultimately gives them the power to ruin the other persons life. Personally I think that for this reason these password pills can also have negative effects on society especially amongst teenagers and younger people.

As can be seen these very practical and efficient pills, which undoubtedly would make our lives easier will most likely also lead to certain negative effect. Personally I believe these pills would be better if they would work specifically for only one person.