6.The premise is that site-authentication images increase security because customers will not enter their passwords if they do not see the correct image, said Stuart Schechter,a computer scientist at the M.I.T.Lincoln Laboratory.From the study we learned that the premise is right less than 10 percent of the time.
7.He added: If a bank were to ask me if they should deploy it,I would say no,wait for something better, he said.
8.The system has some high-power supporters in the financial services world,many trying to comply with new online banking regulations.In 2005,the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council,an interagency body of federal banking regulators,determined that passwords alone did not effectively thwart intruders like identity thieves.
9.It issued new guidelines,asking financial Web sites to find better ways for banks and customers to identify each other online.January 2007 was set as the compliance date,though the council has yet to begin enforcing the mandate.
10.Banks immediately knew what they did not want to do: ask customers to download new security software,or carry around hardware devices that feed them PIN codes they can use to authenticate their identities.Both solutions would add an extra layer of security but,the banks believed,detract from the convenience of online banking.
11.The image system,introduced in 2004 by a Silicon Valley firm called PassMark Security,offered banks a pain-free addition to their security arsenals.Bank of America was among the first to adopt it,in June 2005,under the brand name SiteKey,asking its 21 million Web site users to select an image from thousands of possible choices and to choose a unique phrase they would see every time they logged in.
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