WeHatePasswords

It's a nice product, but a much more unusable than using passwords. Let me explain. First, remembering words or phrases is much easier than remembering patterns. That's why requesting passwords to be "a mix of letters, numbers and symbols" is perhaps much securer than "neighbor" or "19840101" but much less rememberable for the human brain. Thankfully there are password managers that do the work for you, but if for some reason you don't have one at some point (firewall, don't remember the master password, etc...) then you are in a world of trouble. I'd rather have a *passphrase* than such complicated BS. Now further complicate this by having to remember not words, not symbols, but DRAWINGS. And it's not only having to simply remember, you will have to be able to redraw it from memory. As a result, this will lead to... simple patterns. A cube. A frame. A circle. A set of lines. A cross. And of course monochromatic. It's already hard to remember one color, having to throw other colors in the process is much more cumbersome. Second, entering a password or a pass phrase is much, much quicker than having to draw something. You would have to make sure you are correct in your drawing. Drew outside the lines? Need to correct that. Again this would lead in only a few drawings that are really usable. No one would want to draw a Pikachu every time they need to enter their password. Last and not least, this is not integrable with other tools. No password manager. No way to export passwords. No way to retrieve passwords in the case you forgot what you drew. It's plainly unusable. Sure, it's fun, you can draw some great pixel arts with it. It is much cooler to show someone that you login to your app by drawing a Mario sprite or a Sonic one. But nobody in their right mind will actually use it in something they care or use all the time.

Congrats on the launch! I love the innovation, although I do have to question: doesn't this make it really easy to steal someone's password by looking at someone's screen, even from a distance?

A year ago I launched version 1 of WeHatePasswords. At the time it was available as a JavaScript widget that site admins had to implement, but I came to see that it makes more sense as a Google Chrome extension. WeHatePasswords allows you to log in to any site simply by drawing an easy-to-remember pixel art. You don't sacrifice on security either, here is some stats: There is 178,405,960,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible drawing combinations. Compared to an auto-generated password in Safari which has 970,087,680,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations. In this example WeHatePasswords is 183,907,046 times more secure than a traditional password. A WeHatePasswords drawing would take a hacker with a modern computer 4,808,633,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to brute-force. WeHatePasswords V2 is in beta and will improve as time goes on. I welcome you to report any bugs you find.