{"id":373,"date":"2009-08-19T20:27:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-08-19T20:28:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T01:28:04","slug":"iphone-password-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/iphone-password-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Password Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idea: your iPhone knows your passwords, so when you make a small typo, <em>it corrects it for you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There are obviously major security concerns here. But I believe they can be acceptably mitigated by the phone itself. Someone would have to <em>physically<\/em> use the iPhone to get password correction, and correctly could only happen on the first or second password attempt. Also, correction could be limited to the kinds of typos a person would make.<\/p>\n<p>Passwords are broken by machines, not people. I believe password correction can help people, without substantially helping machines, and compromising security.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to type precisely on an iPhone&#8217;s virtual keyboard. That prevents people from using secure passwords, and that hurts security. Because password correction helps people actually use strong passwords, it should be to be a net security <em>benefit<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idea: your iPhone knows your passwords, so when you make a small typo, it corrects it for you. There are obviously major security concerns here. But I believe they can be acceptably mitigated by the phone itself. Someone would have to physically use the iPhone to get password correction, and correctly could only happen on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,203,42,8],"tags":[297,477,311,476,475],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-iphone","category-security","category-usability","tag-authentication","tag-auto-correction","tag-password","tag-typing","tag-typos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}