A lengthy article on internet password system security...

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A lengthy article on internet password system security...

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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ ... acker/all/

Among many things which I'd love to comment (I can't get rid of the feeling that author is media-obsessed person and spends too much time online) this one is interesting:
What about biometrics? After watching lots of movies, many of us would like to think that a fingerprint reader or iris scanner could be what passwords used to be: a single-factor solution, an instant verification. But they both have two inherent problems. First, the infrastructure to support them doesn’t exist, a chicken-or-egg issue that almost always spells death for a new technology. Because fingerprint readers and iris scanners are expensive and buggy, no one uses them, and because no one uses them, they never become cheaper or better.
How about walking around with your cellphone with dangling fingerprint device attached? :D
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