Passclicks: Login Without Passwords

Remembering dozens and dozens of logins for your different haunts around the web can be not only difficult, but also a liability if you come to rely on one login/pass combo to heavily. Fortunately there are still innovators out there trying to come up with a solution to the difficult problem of ensuring websites stay secure while also remaining easy to use and convenient for their audiences.

Enter Passclicks, a fascinating departure from the traditional process of logins and passwords. Passclicks are a set pattern of location based clicks that are created by a user, and therefore validate their identity. Upon the need to login to a website, the user would simply enter their username, and click on various points of an image to prove they are indeed who they claim to be.

Of course a system of user-defined clicks isn’t necessarily easier to remember than a single password: imagine if you had to remember click locations for say, 20 different sites, all of which used different images. But it does none the less show that innovations can still be made in the process of logins, so we can hope that in between now and the time that we’ve all got schwarzenegger-esque brain implants, logging could be a bit less of a hassle.