alt.hn

5/22/2025 at 2:46:07 PM

Next Password Could Be Stored in Plastic

https://spectrum.ieee.org/plastic-data-storage

by Brajeshwar

5/22/2025 at 4:06:38 PM

Terrible application but exciting tech.

It's a new form of information storage using very cheap substances. It's only a few dozen bytes for now but it's still cool to see fundamental research like this take place.

by dragontamer

5/22/2025 at 3:47:44 PM

Cool tech. Don’t put a password in something that can be read by anyone with a scanner though.

by maxwellg

5/23/2025 at 6:40:11 AM

whatever happened to printing the passwords qr code. The tech might itself is interesting. My first thought was archival though. Storing whatever we have on paper archives.

by Elixir6419

5/22/2025 at 3:16:14 PM

Do we really need to generate more petrochemical waste so we can have neat little hardware tokens?

by GuinansEyebrows