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Could a doodle replace your password?

  • Written by Janne Lindqvist, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University
imageWhat if you could unlock your smartphone this way?Janne Lindqvist, CC BY-ND

Nearly 80 percent of Americans own a smartphone, and a growing proportion of them use smartphones for internet access, not just when they’re on the go. This leads to people storing considerable amounts of personal and private data on their mobile devices.

Often, there...

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