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#5506961 Posted on: 01/04/2018 12:17 AM
If I had a nickel for every time someone said "It's time to get rid of the password"--in order to substitute some other kind of "password" for the current "passwords" we all use--I'd be a whole lot richer than I am... Seems like every time someone comes up with the "perfect password replacement" it seems to have more vulnerabilities and drawbacks than make it reasonable or worthwhile to implement. Passwords work very well for people who use them intelligently--ah, but the world is full of people who won't/don't--and giving then a new formulae simply provides them with another technology to abuse... World is full of engineers who never heard, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" as they are always trying to improve that which cannot be improved, imo.
If I had a nickel for every time someone said "It's time to get rid of the password"--in order to substitute some other kind of "password" for the current "passwords" we all use--I'd be a whole lot richer than I am... Seems like every time someone comes up with the "perfect password replacement" it seems to have more vulnerabilities and drawbacks than make it reasonable or worthwhile to implement. Passwords work very well for people who use them intelligently--ah, but the world is full of people who won't/don't--and giving then a new formulae simply provides them with another technology to abuse... World is full of engineers who never heard, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" as they are always trying to improve that which cannot be improved, imo.
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Agreed.
The only time there should be biometrics, is for nuclear missile launch authentication, James Bonds films, and my personal underground sex dungeon.