I need biometrics, since I have such problems remembering passwords.
Posted on 06/01/2004 9:03:37 PM PDT by Bobby777
To access her bank account online, Marie Jubran opens a Web browser and types in her Swedish national ID number along with a four-digit password.
For additional security, she then pulls out a card that has 50 scratch-off codes. Jubran uses the codes, one by one, each time she logs on or performs a transaction. Her bank, Nordea PLC, automatically sends a new card when she's about to run out.
As more Web sites demand passwords, scammers are getting more clever about stealing them. Hence the need for such "passwords-plus" systems.
Scandinavian countries are among the leaders as many online businesses abandon static passwords in favor of so-called two-factor authentication.
"A password is a construct of the past that has run out of steam," said Joseph Atick, chief executive of Identix Inc., a Minnesota designer of fingerprint-based authentication. "The human mind-set is not used to dealing with so many different passwords and so many different PINs."
When a static password alone is required, security experts recommend that users combine letters and numbers and avoid easy-to-guess passwords like "1234" or a nickname.
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"fingerprint-based authentication" is already being implemented (to clarify) at Piggly-Wiggly ...
Have to ask why we even HAVE to have passwords for so many things these days. Don't have to present a password to buy a newspaper at a newsstand (although radio shack will ask for all sorts of personal information even if you are just buying a battery). Shouldn't need to "log-in" just to read a newspaper online.
Unless you choose to post a message (and even then, some forums don't require this), you shouldn't be required to log-in to a free service.
I need biometrics, since I have such problems remembering passwords.
Any assigned password is only as good as the assignor.
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This is a major problem. My supervisor has the victim of a burglar this weekend. They took his briefcase with all of his account information. He spent all day yesterday on the phone with various banks, credit card companies and others getting his accounts frozen.
For the past few months no longer can we choose a simple PW for our account access into our work machines. I will not list the requirements, but needless to say they make some of those listed here seem like child's play. The military usually over reacts, but in this case I think that is a good thing.
All of this is sort of rough on the old brain to remember, guess I need to up the dose of ginkgo in the mornings, or write the PW on my hand and not wash until I change it.
has the victim = was the victim
Not enough coffee yet.
I'd like to see a thread on what and how folks make and remember their password. Most offices one can type "dell" and a workers phone number. One day a co-worker bragged that his word could'nt be broken. A day later I was laying his inter office mail on his desk and noted a very unique spelling for his "wifes" name. Typed it in, bingo and sent our boss a torid love letter from my partners "secure" puter !
Always a hoot.......it's a signal our boss understands that it's time to change the passwords as someones been "violated" when he gets love letters.......:o)
Stay safe SLB !
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