PINoptic

So what's the sketch? What exactly is "visibly better security"? Visibly better than what exactly?

The Problem.

We help solve two major problems affecting the internet today.

Authenticating users when we expect to know the person accessing our website. All users of the internet experience this process every day. More systems, more passwords, more complexity and more little tricks to make it easier for you to remember passwords and malicious users to harvest them.

And the other problem we help solve?

Making sure that people we know can access our system - so long as they are of course, "people" and not the dreaded spam bots trying to register to your tasty forum with all of its lucious emails waiting to feed the hungry spammer.

The Solution

The problems above are easiliy stated, yet difficult to solve. It's human nature to write passwords on sticky bits of paper or for passwords to be observed by those with malicious intent.

Likewise, spam is big business and sources of legitimate emails are gold. The elaborate techiques for thwarting unwanteded guests end up discouraging or losing real customers. The poor preverbial baby thrown out with the equally proverbial bathwater.

We can stop that happening with passwords that effectively change each time a user is prompted to log on using visual symbols instead of plain text passwords or PIN numbers.

How?

The short answer is that instead of a long passcode that may need to be written down if difficult to remember, we use symbols instead. Users are asked to think of a sentence that for them is more personal and easy to remember that would include a number of symbols. Typically 4 symbols are recommended and oddly, by reversing the order remembering 8 can be no more unwieldy than remembering 4. In fact, research at Sunderland University demonstrates that such sentences are more memorable if they are less real.. for example, A Bird took my Key but I used my Umbrella to stop the Bat! Now the clever bit - since we could never make money by our sentence construction skills as you see! We developed a technology designed by our Chief Scientific Officer Mark Bedworth, that would allow the symbols to be pixed up on a key pad.