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Beware your Smartphone Password Pattern Easily Recognized

Beware your Smartphone Password Pattern Easily Recognized


OSLO - Password or password on the smartphone, to be one of the most important in securing your data. Did you know, if the password used Android users turned out to be easily identified.
Citing Phone Arena, Sunday (08/23/2015), a study conducted by scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Marte Loge, answer it.
Researchers found that a lot of Android users who set up a password-based pattern (pattern) on their devices with simple forms known to others.
Loge findings, more than 77 percent of the pattern starts at one point from the four corners of the pattern, while 44 percent of the pattern is made from the top left corner.
Of course, the more nodes (node) that is made will be more difficult for someone to guess your password. Loge research shows, the average number of vertices used one to make the pattern is four and five.
By using a five-node only, the password you create will have the possibility to guess as much as 7152 times. If only made four vertices, has opened the possibility for random reached 1,624 times.
Loge continues, if there is create a password using nine node, then it is likely to be more complicated to guess which 140 thousand trials.
Loge how that is done for the purposes of his thesis was that asks respondents to participate by making three patterns of some of the purposes of the purposes of opening the banking application, the application shopping (shopping), and makes the smartphone.
Through that mechanism, Loge find a pattern consisting of four and five-node is the type most often used by both men and women. Moreover, Loge also see, as much as 10 percent of key patterns made by the letters of the alphabet.

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