A young Australian man has invented a new technology to convert photos into ultra long passwords of 512 characters.

On August 8th, Tencent Technology reported that an Australian youth believed he had identified a global password security issue by using photos instead of passwords.

Most people nowadays use easily guessed passwords because they use the same password in many network services. Although this approach is foolish and irresponsible, there is no other great way, unless you can remember dozens of complex and abnormal passwords.

But we don't have to worry about it anymore. At the PasswordsCon password protection seminar held in Las Vegas this week, Australian 18-year-old Sam Crowther offered us another option. The application he designed allows you to select a photo from a mobile phone or other device as your network password, and then convert it into a very long password. Specifically, it is a super long password composed of 512 characters.

Clauser's logic is that it should be easier for anyone to remember a particular photo. More importantly, even if a stranger enters your device, they may not know which photo you have chosen as your password, especially when there are hundreds of photos stored on your device.

This is also a good way to prevent malicious software such as Keylogging from monitoring you, as the position of photos on the phone screen is constantly changing. And the website can also frequently change your real password without requiring you to do anything, you just need to always keep selecting the same photo. If this photo has been deleted, you can also reset your password with another photo.

Clauser has dropped out of college and created the photo password company uSig. The company's slogan is: "One photo is worth a thousand passwords."

PerThorsheim, a Norwegian cybersecurity expert who organized the PasswordsCon seminar, said that Klauser's idea has not been validated yet. But he believes it is very promising and indeed requires new methods to solve the current password dilemma. This dilemma has attracted special attention this week, with a network company claiming that Russian hackers have stolen the usernames and passwords of 1.2 billion internet users, which is likely to be the largest online theft case to date. (Sailing)