Ask Slashdot: Convincing My Company To Stop Using Passwords?

gurps_npc writes Any password policy sufficiently complex to be secure is too complex to remember so people write them down. Worse, company policy is to leave a message on your answering machine describing it — when the software uses a 6 number password to get your 8 letter/symbol/number/capital/no dupes (ever) real password. I want to suggest a better method. I want to go with a two factor system — either token based or phone based (LaunchKey, Clef, Nok Nok). Does anyone have any advice on specific systems — or points I should bring up? Or alternatives such as graphical based passwords?

Comments

Re:Do you want to take the fall for the inevitable

[houstonbofh]

Not to mention that stabbing yourself in the eye with a pencil will probably be less painful and result in more real security. And at least the eye-pencil is likely to make it to completion.

Re:It could be worse

[Guspaz]

Which one? 0118999881999119725...3?