Another idea for an alternative password would be a picture based password. The idea is that the user uploads a bunch of images. Some might have faces and others might be scenes etc. The system would then ask the user to select like 5 of the images from the set of images. The user would then be asked to trace a free form closed region on each of those 5 images. The system records those regions. Accompanying the standard password the user would have to draw that region (within some error bound). This would be useful as a second precaution. Might be a pain to do though…