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MS to Trade Passwords for 2-Factor Authentication

Posted by timothy on from the something-borrowed-something-blue dept.

Bret Tobey writes "During a security panel at CEBIT, Microsoft's Senior Director for Trustworthy Computing commented that Longhorn would abandon passwords in favor of two factor authentication. While it's hard to argue for keeping passwords, it does raise questions about where this could all lead. None other than Bruce Schneier pointed out how two factor authentication can fail us."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

  2. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    I'll stop posting these when they stop happening.

    1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:A question worth asking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You, sir, are a karma whore.

  4. Re:A question worth asking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am.

  5. Re:For those that don't know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shut up you lesbian.

  6. Re:MS version by topdogqqq · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You make me sleepy.

  7. Re:Bruce Schneier. The anti solution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    About your sig...

    "Try not. Do or do not, there is no try." was *NOT* said by "Dr. Spock". "Dr. Spock" is the guy who wrote all those baby books in the 80's. It's MR. Spock you are thinking of. Sheesh, someone aught to take your "geek card" away for that boo-boo.