Ok my experiement today looks to be a relative success. Today’s computer count was not significantly reduced
1) clock
2) alarm
4) car and car alarm
5) cell phone
6) iPod (I used head phones because I had to use…)
7) cell phone charger
8) laptop (wired to corp intranet)
9) garage access
10) elevator
11) office phone (I wanted to save cell phone minutes)
12) fridge (diet coke and coffee creamer at office)
13) coffee machine at office
14) credit card reader (took customer to lunch) (and family to dinner)
15) computer or tv at home tonight (to watch a tv show or show on DVD)
16) playstation to kill a few imperial storm troopers (it’s been that kind of day)
This brings up the question of how many identities did I use today and how many different passwords were required.
1) key for my house to lock the door as I left – physical device/key
2) remote alarm for car – electronic signal to unlock the car
3) key for car – physical device/key – laser cut key which interestingly is more secure than my house key
4) my voice and spelling of my name (I forgot the access card to the garage at work)
5) face (I knocked on the door to have someone open it and let me in since I forgot my badge)
6) credit card with my name on it
7) laptop password
8) email password
9) calendar password
10) gmail password (personal email)
11) password for time entry system
12) my mom’s birthdate (I had to update her medication ship to address and this is all they asked for to verify it was me. They also wanted an invoice number to find her account but only her birthdate to verify I was acting on her behalf)
13) I’m hoping to later provide my user profile to my playstation to play a saved game or two
Amazing how many times I had to identity myself and how little or how much information was required to perform the authentication.