Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

3 of 449 comments (clear)

  1. Re:For those that don't know... by oliana · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dang, and I have mod points, too.

    --
    In Soviet Russia, asses suck this joke.
  2. The real question is by Monkelectric · · Score: 1, Troll
    Not how MS is doing this. But how they will attempt to lockout other OS's and vendors with this new initiative.

    They could very easily create a smart card or some kind of token system that *COULD NOT* work in linux, or with LDAP (LDAP allows unix and other systems to authenticate against Active Directory).

    --

    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  3. This is News? by IAmAMacOSXAddict · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is not as though we didn't know that most MacroSloth windows experts SUCK at security any way...

    --
    MacOSX, because making *NIX better is a lot better than waiting for Micro$loth to fix Windows