, 2004-11-19
Bill Gates is right about one thing: asking people to use a two-factor form of authentication would go a long way toward alleviating a lot of the password problems that plague computer security today.
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So now, more than 10 years after the Feb 3 CERT advisory against using static passwords over the Internet, Bill finally gets it. So what?
Until we have ubiquitous support for strong authentication across all common platforms and clients, and several widely trusted authorities for authentication services, we are stuck with these obsolete passwords.
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