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How cool was it when the iPhone feature came out that allowed you to unlock your phone with your fingerprint? Well, Jonathan Leblanc was definitely down with it. As PayPal’s head of developer advocacy, he sees the company adopting the concept of ‘body integration’, or in other words, putting your passwords in little pills and making you swallow them.

Dude sounds a bit like he’s lost the plot but here’s how he sees it: compromised password security is becoming more and more of an issue; the top two passwords for 2014 were ‘12345’ and ‘password’ (FFS guys). Add to this recent Fappenings (yep, plural) and privacy breaches and the dude has a good point for passwords being a defunct system. As well as proposing vein recognition and heart beat analysis, he’s also suggested that we put our passwords in little microchips and swallow them. Then when we use PayPal to buy rare Nike Prestos online, we don’t have to put in a password, we’re just recognised…somehow.

There are many reasons why this nebulous concept will definitely NOT be happening. One is that people – barring android-wannabe bio-hackers – are already edgy AF about things they put into their body. We live in a time where our penchant for non-diagnosed gluten free diets have probably already killed home-baked cookies for the next generation. Try getting Paleo-diet endorsers like that Pete Evans dude from My Kitchen Rules to swallow a microchip – it’s not happening Jon.
Add this to very real civilian fears like the NSA’s PRISM programme, and people would rather risk it with ‘12345’ than pop a PayPal pinga.

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