Digital Identity Assurance

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Get Out of Digital Identity Crisis and Make 2024 Happier

- A viable solution to the crisis of digital identity is two clicks away -

To start the digital identity discussions of 2024, we would like to talk about ‘De-Brainwashing’ of brainwashed misperception and stereotype, which can be achieved just by two clicks.

The first click is for De-Brainwashing of the misperceived security effect of probabilistic biometrics authentication and biometrics-involved MFA deployed in cyberspace — To click is this 2-minute video ‘Biometrics in Cyber Space — “below-one” factor authentication’ https://youtu.be/wuhB5vxKYlg

Once you get de-brainwashed in 2 minutes, you will be able to think with a cool head about the true nature of ‘Password Predicament’, the core of the crisis of digital identity — The password, say, secret credential to be managed in our brain, is absolutely indispensable whereas the text-only password is too hard to manage in our brain.

The second click is for De-Brainwashing of the stereotype that the password must be the text-only password. To click is this 2-minute post “Image Memory versus Text Memory” (27Aug2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_why-our-brains-prefer-symbols-to-words-activity-7101417424599601152-qQ2f

If you are de-brainwashed of the above misperception and stereotype, you might well feel like your brain is thoroughly neutralised and feel encouraged to explore more about what is offered in the realm of the Non-Text password and Image-to-Code Conversion.

You could get it started with “What ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ Offers to Global Population” (27Oct2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_image-to-code-converter-31july2023pptx-activity-7123566445531189248-oIxA

Should you be well convinced with the power of ‘Image-to-Code’ Conversion, you might feel encouraged to move to “Release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways” (13Dec2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_identity-authentication-password-activity-7140519698529464320-saOM

Well, we are acutely mindful that the difficult part is that the brainwashed people love to stay brainwashed. We need to struggle further to break this tall and thick wall.

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Three Major Developments of 2023 — Expanded Password System

To wrap up our digital identity discussions of 2023, let us raise these three developments -

(1) We entered the second decade of Japanese Army’s unshaken patronage.

Thanks to the support of Founding Commander of Systems Defense Unit of Signal Brigade of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, aka, Japanese Army, we were given the first order for the login software for hardened PCs to be mounted on field command-communications vehicles in 2012.

The software was first put into actual use in 2013 for the authentication of the registered soldiers who are responsible for the encrypted data exchange among the soldiers on the vehicles deployed in the field. The number of licenses has since increased more than 10-fold and is set to stay in use for at least 10 more years, with fresh orders flowing in.

With a multi-user license offered to each vehicle, the total number of registered soldiers might well be now a few thousands or even more. We are honoured to see our Expanded Password System solution contributing to the most demanding task in the most demanding environment.

(2) We teamed up with QRC group, supplier of the most advanced quantum resistant cryptography.

Solid cryptography depends on and contributes to solid identity security and solid identity security depends on an contributes to solid cryptography. We now can offer yet more reliable identity/cryptography-integrated security solutions.

(3) We officially announced the release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways leak-proof password manager.

We have long been talking about the development of Mnemonic Gateways — ‘No Password Vault’ leak-proof password manager . Now, we are delighted to announce the Release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways.

- References -

*1 What ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ Offers to Global Population (27Oct2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_image-to-code-converter-31july2023pptx-activity-7123566445531189248-oIxA

*2 Teaming Up with Top Brand Quantum Resistant Cryptography (19July2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_cyber-leaders-join-forces-to-protect-digital-activity-7087256955555123200-3I30

*3 Release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways (13Dec2023) — another application of ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_identity-authentication-password-activity-7140519698529464320-saOM

As stated above, 2023 was really a productive year for our global endeavour to providing truly secure and yet easily practicable identity security solutions to the global population over a number of generations

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Gold Skill if Correct Knowledge is Learnt

“Cybersecurity Awareness is a Gold Skill”  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cybersecurity-awareness-gold-skill-debesh-choudhury-phd-rvnrf

I would like to add “Cyber Security Awareness would be a Gold Skill when (only when) the correct knowledge is learnt”

By ‘correct knowledge’, I mean the knowledge that probabilistic biometrics would destroy identity security where deployed with a default password/pincode, as visually demonstrated in this 2minute video “Biometrics in Cyber Space — ‘below-one’ factor authentication” https://youtu.be/wuhB5vxKYlg

It would be too big an irony if you destroy the identity security as the result of your earnestly learning wrong teaching of cybersecurity.

More of our biometrics discussions are collected here — “Probabilistic Biometrics Unravelled : How it brings down identity security” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biometrics-unravelled-password-dependent-hitoshi-kokumai/

Thanks to Debesh Choudhury, PhD for bringing me to this informative article.

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Where We Can Contribute

“New ‘Mind-Reading’ AI Translates Thoughts Directly From Brainwaves — Without Implants”  https://www.sciencealert.com/new-mind-reading-ai-translates-thoughts-directly-from-brainwaves-without-implants

At one end the of the spectrum, this technology could be a huge blessing, for instance, for patients of the diseases like ALS in democratic nations .We would just welcome the further development.

At the other end, it could be a huge menace, for instance, for political dissidents detained by dictatorship. We probably could only rely on psychologists and brain scientists for the mental technique of not thinking about anything related to the subjects that interrogators want to know.

Somewhere in between, where solid identity authentication is required, our solutions could contribute to fend off fake service recipients against correct servers (*1)and fake servers against correct service recipients (*2)

*1 Some ideas on image-based identity authentication with BCI is briefly referred to here — “Password & BCI/BMI (Brain-Computer/Machine-Interface)” published 9 years ago  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/password-bcibmi-brain-computermachine-interface-hitoshi-kokumai/

*2 .Here is our solution to persistent phishing — “Detection of Phishing by Episodic Image Memory” published 3 years ago  https://www.slideshare.net/HitoshiKokumai/detection-of-phishing-by-episodic-image-memory-243182482

Thanks to Stiepan Aurélien Kovac for bringing me to this intriguing report — https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7145812497332121600

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Fresh News for Biometrics?

“Android Banking Trojan Chameleon can now bypass any Biometric Authentication” https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/android-banking-trojan-chameleon-is-back-in-action

We could easily think of two ways to break/bypass biometrics - (1) By taking advantage of the zone of False Acceptance, for which AI-enhanced spoofing technique hells a lot.

(2) By attacking a weak default password/pincode that is deployed with probabilistic biometrics in a security-destructive two/multi-entrance formation (as against an ostensibly security-enhancing two/multi-entrance formation.

In any case, both are the threats about which we have kept warning for more than two decades and for which we came up with the conclusive ruling as a 2minute video seven years ago — ‘Biometrics in Cyber Space — “below-one” factor authentication’ https://youtu.be/wuhB5vxKYlg Interested to know more about the security-destructive effect of biometrics authentication and biometrics-involved MFA? — You could refer to this collection of biometrics blogs “Probabilistic Biometrics Unravelled : How it brings down identity security” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biometrics-unravelled-password-dependent-hitoshi-kokumai/ (3) We would certainly be curious to know if another channel to bypass the biometrics is found.

Thanks to Jim Angleton for bringing me to this intriguing report -https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7144038038371782656

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PIN is Easy to Manage — Really?

What we are told by security experts — “PIN is easier to remember and recall than alphanumeric passwords because the former is generally shorter and contains fewer information than the latter”.

What most of us experienced ourselves — “PIN is not easier to remember and recall than alphanumeric passwords. Moreover, the former is easier to confuse because it contains fewer information, despite the teaching by security experts.”

For instance, what would happen if we try to displace some old PINs with new ones? — New ones and old ones, still not dead in our memory, would start to compete in our brain. It is due to the phenomenon called ‘Interference of Memory’ (*1).

Another confusing factor — We assume that PIN, the name of which was also confusing (*2), came up when security people took it for granted that they did not need to take psychology or cognitive science into consideration.

Confusions about PIN might have even driven certain security people to allege that PIN, which is a weaker form of numbers-only passwords, does not belong to the password. What we are now witnessing is a grotesque ‘PIN-dependent passwordless’ authentication schemes (*3)

*1 Interference in Psychology https://www.verywellmind.com/interference-definition-4587808

*2 The full name of PIN is ‘Personal Identification Number’, very misleading in view of the fact that it is actually used for ‘Identity Authentication’, not ‘Personal Identification’ in this world.

#3 “The Tremendous Power of PIN” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_removal-of-passwords-and-its-security-effect-activity-6774506583117443072-JfTJ

and “Want to Dive into Suicidal Disaster?” (15Oct2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_what-are-passkeys-google-announces-the-end-activity-7119239282887704577-89s9

As such, it could theoretically help to add PIN as a security factor but practically the burden on the user could be unjustifiably heavy. Users attempt to escape the burden by writing them on a memo and carrying it around together with the cards and devices that accept anyone who hold the memo.

In view of the ubiquitous and still increasing presence of PIN, however, we need to do something to make it human-friendly Our proposition is to get it managed by Expanded Password System that enables citizens to make use of their non-volatile episodic image memory.

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Skills Required to Sell Biometrics?

While there could be a lot of debates over which solution helps for higher security than the others, we do not need any debate to conclude that we should kick out what destroys the security.

Certainly, we are talking about biometrics-involved authentication deployed in cyberspace (biometrics deployed in physical space for identification is a different story).

It takes no more than 2 minutes for anyone to get convinced that biometrics used with a default password/pincode would inevitably destroy the security that the password/pincode has somehow provided. Watch this short video — “Biometrics in Cyber Space — “below-one” factor authentication” https://youtu.be/wuhB5vxKYlg

Salespeople who tout biometrics solutions do not even require the skills of their colleagues who tout ‘snake oil’ where the falsehood of biometrics is persistently endorsed by reputed security experts and global tech firms. The banquet will, however, be over sooner or later because it is in a sand castle that it is going on.

Well, when the global population get to throw away the lie-ridden biometrics-involved authentication, we will see a huge vacuum generated all over the world. Our solutions are here ready to fill the global vacuum with the power of citizens’ non-volatile episodic image memory, say, image memory of citizens’ unforgettable personal experiences.

- References -

What ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ Offers to Global Population (27Oct2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_image-to-code-converter-31july2023pptx-activity-7123566445531189248-oIxA

Release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways (13Dec2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_identity-authentication-password-activity-7140519698529464320-saOM

Join Our Endeavour (12Dec2023) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pocket-money-crowdfunding-hitoshi-kokumai-adkae/

Thanks to Debesh Chohodury for bringing me to this intriguing discussion https://www.linkedin.com/posts/debeshchoudhury_so-sorry-you-are-just-asking-for-activity-7141017981597261824-aNAT

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Absence of Wrongly-Configured MFA Helps Identity Security

“Money-grubbing crooks abuse OAuth — and baffling absence of MFA — to do financial crimes”  https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/14/moneygrubbing_crooks_abuse_oauth_apps/

It’s amazing that so many security professionals and tech reporters are so ignorant of or indifferent to the opposite security effects of MFA configured in a multi-layer formation and in a multi-entrance formation — Absence of wrongly-configured MFA would help identity security

As we have repeatedly proven, a 2FA made of a deterministic password/pin and a deterministic physical token, PKI-powered or otherwise, that is configured in 2-layer formation, naturally increases the identity security significantly. On the other hand, an MFA which involves probabilistic biometrics and configured in 2-entrance formation inevitably destroys the identity security (*1)

Then, what can we do? — Our suggestion is simple.

1. If you do not involve biometrics in your MFA schemes, you could ignore all that I mentioned about MFA.

2. If you involve probabilistic biometrics in your MFA schemes, you could remove the biometrics altogether and go back to the solid 2FA made of a deterministic password and a deterministic physical token. Then you are out of the quagmire of MFA.

3. In any case, should you be interested to get yourself, your colleagues, employees and clients relieved from the password headache, you could have a glance at our writing on ‘Image-to-Code Converter (*2) and its application as a leak-proof password manager *3)

*1 “Why We Cannot find 3FA Deployed in 3-Layer Formation?” (3Dec2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_identity-authentication-password-activity-7136923578544885760-ksPp

*2 “What ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ Offers to Global Population” (27Oct2023)https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_image-to-code-converter-31july2023pptx-activity-7123566445531189248-oIxA

* 3 “Release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways” (13Dec2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_identity-authentication-password-activity-7140519698529464320-saOM

Kick out the falsehood of biometrics-involved MFA and you will be able to focus on the truly effective identity security solutions.

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Robust Text Passwords — Practicable or Pie in the Sky?

Thanks to Chuck Brooks for this stimulating newsletter -https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cybersecurity-tips-holiday-shopping-season-chuck-brooks-lsz2e

Creating robust text passwords is one thing. Practicing it is another. Otherwise, we would not be witnessing the cyberspace inundated by so many password managers. We believe that the author is well aware of it and challenging the audience.

Well, the conventional password managers with ‘password vaults’ in them have a fatal drawback — Users of those password managers have to live with the anxiety over what would happen to their cyber life if both the password vaults and the decryption keys for them get leaked.

There is a solution that relieve citizens of such anxiety altogether. The key technology is a versatile ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ outlined in this 9-page slide — https://www.slideshare.net/HitoshiKokumai/imagetocode-converter-31july2023pptx

One of the applications of this key technology is Mnemonic Gateways ‘No Password Vault’ leak-proof password manager, beta-version of which has just been officially released as per “Announcement on Release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways” (10Dec2023) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/announcement-release-beta-mnemonic-gateways-hitoshi-kokumai-aebpc/

Should you be interested in this technology, you could probably not be indifferent to the future of our enterprise — “Join Our Endeavour” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/join-our-endeavour-hitoshi-kokumai-kyj2c/

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MFA with Unknown Configuration

“Cybersecurity Tips For The Holiday Shopping Season”  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cybersecurity-tips-holiday-shopping-season-chuck-brooks-lsz2e

The author of the linked article mentioned MFA without referring to how it should be configured. We believe that the author is well aware that MFA configured in a multi-entrance formation would only destroy the identity security and challenging the audience

The definitive ruling on this issue was already given in this post — “Why We Cannot find 3FA Deployed in 3-Layer Formation?” (3Dec2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_identity-authentication-password-activity-7136923578544885760-ksPp

Kick out the falsehood spread, knowingly or unknowingly, by the vested interests and we will see half of the identity security problems go away.

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Announcement on Release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways and Crowdfunding

We have long been talking about the development of Mnemonic Gateways — ‘No Password Vault’ leak-proof password manager . We are delighted to announce the Release of Beta Mnemonic Gateways and Progress with Crowdfunding.

Please visit our official announcement — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/announcement-release-beta-mnemonic-gateways-hitoshi-kokumai-aebpc/

From the above, you can access the download site so that you can freely try and experience the operation of Mnemonic Gateways. You will also get to know that you could invest into our company starting with ￡100.

The key technology behind it is our ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ outlined in this 9-page slide — https://www.slideshare.net/HitoshiKokumai/imagetocode-converter-31july2023pptx

The fatal drawbacks of conventional password managers are all sorted out.

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Due Attention Paid to Identity Security?

“Australia building ‘top secret’ cloud to match US, UK”

< Due Attention Paid to Identity Security? > https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/australia_top_secret_cloud/

I would like to believe that the designers of security systems for the top-secret clouds in US, UK and Australia are fully aware that the most securely organised systems could become the adversaries’ best weapons as soon as the identity security of the personnel who operate the systems gets compromised (*1).

And also that involving biometrics authentications and biometrics-involved MFA would only destroy the identity security, spreading a serious false sense of security among the personnel in charge and beyond (*2).

*1 “Identity Assurance for Information Assurance” (22Oct2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_information-assuranceia-definition-explanation-activity-7121700293368578048-ZWBf

*2 “Why We Cannot find 3FA Deployed in 3-Layer Formation?” (3Dec2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_identity-authentication-password-activity-7136923578544885760-ksPp

We have no choice but to be very persistent because so many security experts are so persistently wrong.

Well, cryptography is as crucial as identity security. Teamed up with Quantum Resistant Cryptography (QRC), supplier of the most advanced quantum resistant cryptography, we are now in an even better position to help defend the identity security than before.

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Multiple Cyberattacks on Water Supply Infrastructure

“Federal investigators confirm multiple US water utilities hit by hackers” https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/01/politics/us-water-utilities-hack/index.html

Thanks to Julie Saslow Schroeder, J.D., L.L.M. for bringing me to this threatening discussion https://www.linkedin.com/posts/julie-saslow-schroeder-j-d-l-l-m-2a9a403_congressmen-ask-doj-to-investigate-water-activity-7137596694254231553-Y77X

What we need to emphasise persistently is that the most securely organised network could become the adversaries’ best weapons as soon as the identity security of the personnel who operate the network gets compromised.

Want to know more about the critical role that identity security plays for the safe and orderly society? — “Please first refer to this post “Value of Identity Assurance — Trivial or Significant?” (21Sep2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_international-criminal-court-hacked-amid-activity-7110545195355570176-G38i

Specifically how we can achieve the objective is outlined here — “What ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ Offers to Global Population (27Oct2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_image-to-code-converter-31july2023pptx-activity-7123566445531189248-oIxA

The same comment applies to this educative article by Debesh Choudhury Ph. D. — “Be Aware and Combat Cybercrime” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aware-combat-cybercrime-debesh-choudhury-phd-cfjcf

Teaming up with Quantum Resistant Cryptography (QRC), supplier of the most advanced quantum resistant cryptography, we are now able to offer a yet more solid remedy than before.

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Why We Cannot find 3FA Deployed in 3-Layer Formation?

We recently made it clear that involving probabilistic biometrics makes it impossible for us to find MFA configured in a 2-layer formation, as dissected in “Why We Cannot Find ‘Biometrics + PIN’ Configured in ‘2-Layer’ Formation?” (25Nov2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_identity-authentication-password-activity-7134018542592544768-Xoag

It would, then, be very natural for some readers to be inquisitive further — What about 3FA and beyond?

Well, we know that 2FA made of a deterministic password/pin and a deterministic physical token, whether PKI-embedded or otherwise, are found in every corner on the globe.

Then, it would not be hard to comprehend that it is the probabilistic biometrics that makes it impossible for 3FA configured in a 3-layer formation to exist.

As the result, no 3FA we see is configured in a 3-layer formation. And, the 3FA involving biometrics inevitably provide the security lower than an all-deterministic 2FA or even 1FA in case multiple-biometrics are involved, while spreading the misperception that it provides the security higher than 2FA.

The same dissection applies to 4FA and beyond it — 4FA weaker than 3FA or even 2FA or 1FA in case multiple biometrics are involve. And we are now witnessing a huge number of people wasting their money, time and energy in order only to bring down the identity security and spread a false sense of security.

Well, as we see in the above, people who promote and adopt the biometrics-involved MFA inevitably have to be trapped in the quagmire, knowingly or unknowingly. Then, how can we rescue those people from the quagmire — There is a clue to it in this post “Because Truly Valid Alternative is Still Hardly Known” (26Nov2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_your-password-hygiene-remains-atrocious-activity-7134370086575906817-dvxh

Partnering with skt Swiss, supplier of the most advance quantum resistant cryptography, we can now offer even more solid remedy to all those people.

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How MFA is Configured? — Still Unknown

“Okta massively misjudged scale of October breach” https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/29/okta_misjudged_breach_scale/

What the report says about MFA is “It is critical that these users have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enrolled to protect not only the customer support system, but also to secure access to their Okta admin console(s).”

and “While 94 percent of Okta customers already require MFA for their administrators, we recommend ALL Okta customers employ MFA and consider the use of phishing-resistant authenticators to further enhance their security.”

No information on how their MFA is configured is found — in a security-enhancing multi-layer formation or in a security-destructive multi-entrance formation?

Should it be the latter case as we strongly suspect it to be, the wider adoption would never mitigate the problem. The more people adopt their MFA, the worse the situation could get.

And, we should not forget this simple and plain observation — “The most securely organised network could become the adversaries’ best weapons as soon as the identity security of the personnel who operate the network gets compromised.”

This is our latest post on MFA — “MFA with Unknown Configuration — Yet Again” (23Nov2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_canadian-government-data-breach-could-date-activity-7133294810521616386-WcMx

We will certainly come to help them if they feel the need to be rescued. Now that we are teamed up the stk Swiss, supplier of the most advanced quantum resistant cryptography, our identity security solutions are even more solid than before.

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Particularly Secure Governments?

John Marrett also wrote “I wouldn’t count the US Government as being particularly secure: several departments of the US Government were affected by both the Solar Winds (2020) and MOVEit (2023) breaches. US government emails were also hacked by China.

I would add that no governments can be viewed as particularly secure. The reason? — There are no governments that have listened to our discussion on how to achieve the solid identity security, except the field communications unit of Japanese Army, as yet.

Sounds too boastful? — You could consider the value of citizens’ non-volatile episodic image memory, say, image memory of personal experiences, as the seed of secret credentials for the most solid identity authentication (*1)

and also the power of our ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ (*2)

which is now further enhanced by the most advance quantum resistant cryptography from QRC, Switzerland (*3)

*1 Corporate website; https://www.mnemonicidentitysolutions.com/

*2 What ‘Image-to-Code Converter’ Offers to Global Population (27Oct2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_image-to-code-converter-31july2023pptx-activity-7123566445531189248-oIxA

*3 Teaming Up with Top Brand Quantum Resistant Cryptography (19July2023) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_cyber-leaders-join-forces-to-protect-digital-activity-7087256955555123200-3I30

We are certainly ready to hep vulnerability-ridden governments, needless to say, only democratic nations, if they feel the need of help.

Here is John Marrett’s post — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jmarrett_work-email-verification-on-your-profile-activity-7134508249281617920-Ycf

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Good Tool to Get Criminals Delighted

John Marrett — Thanks for referring in your post to my 2minute video demonstrating how biometrics destroys the security that a password/pincode has so far provided — “Biometrics in Cyber Space — ‘below-one’ factor authentication” https://lnkd.in/eeci-Y7

Well, you wrote “biometric authentication is less secure than password-based authentication (using a long & complex password, of course)”

What I wanted say was “biometric authentication is less secure than password-based authentication, irrespective whether the password is strong or weak’.

For instance, when biometrics is used with such a silly password as ‘Password’, the overall security is lower than when this silly password alone is used without biometrics.

As such, we now describe biometrics as ‘good technology to reliably get criminals delighted’.

Here is a collection of biometrics discussions — “Probabilistic Biometrics Unravelled : How it brings down identity security” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biometrics-unravelled-password-dependent-hitoshi-kokumai/

We will certainly be pleased to come to rescue LinkedIn when they feel the need to be rescued.

Here is John Marrett’s post in question — https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jmarrett_work-email-verification-on-your-profile-activity-7134508249281617920-Ycf9