Key To Securing Online Accounts May Be Just A Squiggle Away

"We've come a long way in the information age. We know how to put data on the cloud. We hold mobile devices that can carry as much music as a record store. We've figured out how to send photos to friends with lightning speed — and make them self-destruct after 10 seconds. And yet we haven't quite figured out passwords."

"When security researchers announced earlier this year that the"Heartbleed" bug was making accounts on popular sites like Gmail vulnerable, we reset them. But with dozens of digital accounts — from e-banking and email to online shopping and social networking — who can remember all those characters on all those sites? Add to that the troublesome fact that many people still resort to terribly predictable passwords such as "123456," "abc123" or — the most ridiculous — "password." It's high time we rethink our security strategies in this digital age."

"But before you pull out a dictionary in search of complicated words that no one knows, it might just come down to a simple technique you probably mastered in preschool: drawing a squiggly line."