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Element 39

39●›
Si
Sign in

Tell it who you are.

password · fingerprint · passkey

First known

Opened

≤1963CTSS: the user first gives a login command to identify himself. MIT.

Login only; the pages read show no password.

Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.

  • ReadingValue

Specimen № 39 — operate freely

Sign in on the hotel TV, then check out. Then do it again, and sign out first.

Fig. 39 — Sign in

000 readings · idle

Down the Customize column

  1. it remembersCzCustomize
  2. it connectsSiSign in

Read down and Customize gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Sign in takes.

  • password
  • fingerprint
  • passkey

From the 2021 table

These were tiles of their own. On this table each is a form of Sign in, and each old address lands here.

  • Password EntryIsotopeThe same act in another body.
  • FingerprintIsotopeThe same act in another body.