Did You Know?  Community Leader Posts: 718 Registered:
‎06-12-2013  Windows Picture Passwords - are they really as
"easily crackable" as everyone's saying?  If you've used Windows
8, or even just seen the ads for it, you'll know it has a
feature called Picture Passwords. You choose a picture, any
picture, and then "annotate" it with three finger movements: you
can tap a point, draw a stroke, or sweep a circle. The picture
helps you to remember where you made the gestures, so you can
repeat them reliably enough to pass the test and unlock your
device. If you have a touch screen tablet, Picture Passwords are
surprisingly handy. (Pun intended.) But how safe are they?  One
of the ads I've seen for Windows 8 made a pretty big deal out of
the coolness of Picture Passwords, and illustrated their
convenience with a login sequence to which my immediate reaction
was, "Surely not?" The ad showed a picture of someone's two
young daughters, heads close together and looking at some
distant object; the password involved cir