BLOCKLOCK

The search for a 'killer' app is much I feel like the play, 'Six Characters in Search of an Author'. Nonetheless it is essential prior the heavy task of coding... I remember reading how the author of the Lotus 1-2-3 was basically up all night for a fortnight on the job.

I think though a positive step toward what might be done to minimise the effect of a device being lost or stolen is to conceal some of the apps that matter.

Here's a takeaway for you. The crown jewel of Apple Passwords belongs to your Apple ID. I use it so rarely ~ because you rarely beed to ~ that whenever prompted to do so I have forgotten it and have to go through the rigmarole of resetting it. To avoid this at least for those occasions when I've the laptop available, I do what I do for every other password of note, which is to write it on a digital sticky.

This is the equivalent of leaving a real sticky on the kitchen table to point burglars to where the keys are all kept. People like Apple know it, and don't care in the way that with that much money, you don't need to. 'But we're consumers too...' they will bleat.

Another case in point was Georgia and a trip to Tbilisi that we missed out on because in the travel agents in Istanbul I couldn't recall the password that would approve the Visa payment.

Like the way I can never remember the PIN code for my mobile (think cell) phone at those times I most need it, which is extremely rarely.

And don't you tire of telling people your mother's maiden name? At a time when Musk is sending people to Mars?

What I want then is a global form of app that I can access on a device or online and which nobody else can, because it uses the faces of people and is thus 'somewhere only we know' as Keane put it... and giving instant access to this sort of stuff.

And the same device that acts as an open sesame to places on the desktop or phone that again, is somewhere only we ~ or occasionally I ~ know.

Can't be that hard, can it?

Let's see.