Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi...
by weinzierl on Sunday June 26, 2016 @09:07AM
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>> You get a pocket-calculator-like device
> Such a thing is rather common in The Netherlands,
These devices are very common in Germany as well but I
heard they are phased out and replaced with a solution using a mobile phone.
> have a built-in camera to automatically read an image from the website instead.
In Germany we have a variant that has five photo diodes along one edge. You hold it against a flickering pattern on your screen. This works reasonably well. In my experience it is about equally fast as typing, just a little less reliable.
These devices are very common in Germany as well but I heard they are phased out and replaced with a solution using a mobile phone.
> have a built-in camera to automatically read an image from the website instead.
In Germany we have a variant that has five photo diodes along one edge. You hold it against a flickering pattern on your screen. This works reasonably well. In my experience it is about equally fast as typing, just a little less reliable.