NYT says passwords, OpenID suck

Published 10 August 08 01:23 PM | Brandon Live!
Randall Stross, the same guy who recently said Microsoft should abandon Windows, says on the NY Times site that passwords aren’t good because they’re vulnerable to spoofing attacks, and that they should be replaced by “information cards.”  Well, he’s got a point here, and many companies and services already use non-password authentication mechanisms.  Microsoft uses them for [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks

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