Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Passwords: "Redundant and Bankrupt"

Today's Sydney Morning Herald has a wide-ranging article covering some recent facial recognition news.
Australian security expert James Turner, of IBRS, said the entire concept of a password, as in a series of characters that you type in via a keyboard, had "become redundant and bankrupt".

"It just doesn't work for the number of sites and resources that your typical person uses personally, and then you include corporate [resources] and it just becomes a nightmare."
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