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The Edible Password Pill

 

Explanation

 

The Edible Password Pill is a Motorola invention that is based in chemical reactions. When someone drinks this pill, his or her stomach acids start acting as electrolytes and the chip with which the pill counts starts emiting a signal identified only by his or her personal devices. It's as easy as drinking a regular pill for a headache, but the difference is that we're actually ingesting a "chemical sensor".

 

There are a lot of benefits that this magic pill can provide to us. We can mention in the first place, the comfort. We can say goodbye to all those files where we kept our entry data "secured", or about memorizing ten different passwords and forgetting about them. In the second place, we should mention security. It's much more secure for us to carry our own and unique password in us, without exposing it to the sight of anyone. And in the third place, we should mention the efficacy. With this physical chip inside of us we will be sure that it won't fail in a whole day, and the only thing we must do to turn it on is to activate our stomach acids. Once this is done, the utilization speed could be amazing.

 

Even if there are several benefits of this edible pill from which we can get profit of, there is still people that doesn't agree or that aren't interested in the objective and the functioning of the pill. Some people doesn't the fact of a chip transmiting signals from the inside of their stomachs, in order to simply be able to log into a device. It's obvious that in the first place it does not seem to be the most healthy thing on earth, but can it get to be harmful? 

 

If this technology develops in the best way it can, I have no doubt that the classic usernames and passwords used until know will be left in the past. Again, I totally agree with Dugan statement about authentication: "Authentication is irritating. After forty years of advances in computation, we're still authenticating basically the same way we did years ago" (Regina Dugan, 2013). It would be silly if we don't ask ourselves this question, why is it that technology has improved and developed in such a fast and chilling manner, and the way in which we log into this technology is still the same that forty years ago? I think people should be opened to innovatice technologies and leave their fears behind, because what is risky, sets up evolution.

 

Origin and historical impact to the world

 

In November last year (2013), a D11 Conference took place where the head of Motorola Research division Former DARPA (owned by Google) Regina Dugan, talked about an ingestible pill that as a vitamin, is capable of transforming our body into a "authentication password". Even if it is a Motorola invention, it was made by Proteus Digital Health. As we said in the explanation, the pill counts with a chip that has a switch that can be turned on and off by the stomach's acids, that serve as electrolytes. As they work on this experiment made reality, they are also making research about electronic tattoos. Dugan stated: "I really want this superpower. It means that my arms are like wires, my hands are like alligator clips. When I touch my phone, my computer, my door, my car, I'm authenticated in" (Regina Dugan, 2013).

 

This edible password pill is also called by some the "authentication pill". It provides you an unlimited and total secure access to the devices that belong to you for 24 hours. The reason why this edible pill was invented is based in the noncomformity of society of having to memorize a different password for each device in which we log into. With this pill, we forget about the issue of forgeting our passwords and we make a password of our own body.

 

When choosing a password, all of us follow more or less the same protocol. We use our names, our birthdays, our familiar dates or even demographic information in order not to have the same password to every online site we visit. The problem is that nowadays there are hundreds of different programs capable of uncover our "so secure" passwords, and that can exhibit our private data and information leaving us in a dangerous and risky situation. Every day, millions of passwords are discovered by this programs, and it doesn't matter the length or the complexity of the password.

 

There are several forms of password protection. Some of them includes: online identity services; two form authentication, which involves two ways of identifying an user when trying to access his or her system or network; and a multi-form verification, which requests for two kinds of authentication elements, which can be a "knowledge element", such as a question which answer is only known by its user, or a "possession element" which only the user has. For the validation, it is necessary that each element get approved. Even if this seems to be a very secure system, there are still lagoons through which are passwords can be discovered.

 

Nowadays, there are a lot of parallel studies to our edible pill to make our body a password, such as retina or eyeball scanning, facial or fingerprint recognition, and gesture control. Nevertheless, the most advanced studies are, on the one hand, the research of a way to be able to implant passwords in the user's minds, and in the other hand, even more creative, a way to make passwords ingestible. This pills already exist, and as we said before, they were invented by Motorola which now is part of the "monster" Google. It makes the human body become an authentification object, and it is activated and deactivated by stomach acids. Apparently, the can be consumed daily for a month (as a maximum). Once we ingest the pill, it gives out an 18-bit signal which can be read and recognised  by wireless devices such as smartphones and tablets. 

 

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