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Bill Gates Is Right?
Scott Granneman, 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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Smart cards maybe, but not biometrics 2004-11-22
Nicholas Chase
I'm terrified of the idea of biometrics. If I lose my smart card, I can report it and it can be turned off. If somebody "steals" my thumbprint, what am I going to do, get a new thumb? Spend the rest of my life explaining to vendors that my thumbprint has been deactivated because of fraud, but rea...

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