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That's ok until you fuck your back up one day or hurt yourself in some other way. "What do you mean access denied - I've just got a back ache!"
by meaty 14y ago
That's ok until you fuck your back up one day or hurt yourself in some other way.
"What do you mean access denied - I've just got a back ache!"
- sergiotapia 14y agoI don't see way I can't update this hypothetical heuristic collection. :)
- krapp 14y agoIf you can update it, trivially, presumably without using the heuristics themselves, someone can update it for you. Now you have a new problem (securing the method for updating the heuristics.) Although a counterpoint to this would be using more unique points of reference like the iris, fingerprints, etc, things not likely to change.
- sergiotapia 14y agoWe can secure that using the current heuristics.
- tedunangst 14y agoYour solution to not being able to login is to login and change settings?
- biot 14y agoThink of it like Paxos. As long as a majority of unique data points agree, allow access. That way if your back is out which results in your posture being unrecognized, the other factors can still form a quorum and grant you access. There could be 20 such factors weighted by "difficulty to forge", so that a fingerprint counts 15x as much as posture for example. Then if you successfully authenticate with, say, 80% on all data points then the system can allow you to train a new factor.
- b_emery 14y agoExactly! It becomes a machine learning problem. There was a post about this a while back ..
- sergiotapia 14y agoI was attempting to post some humor on HN, but it seems it's not quite welcome here. :)
- dpark 14y agoSo the current heuristics are no longer valid (e.g. you were in a car wreck so you're hunched from back pain and have a black eye), and you're going to use the current heuristics as a gate to updating the heuristics? Imagine if the "forgot password" link on a website gave you a form that said "enter your current password and then you can set a new password". This is the scenario you're describing.
- recursive 14y agoBecause you don't have permission as an unauthenticated user.