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The Obama administration urged the private sector Friday to develop methods that consumers can use instead of passwords to identify themselves online and, in some cases, in brick and mortar stores.
“The Internet has transformed how we communicate and do business,” said President Barack Obama in a statement accompanying release of a national strategy to safeguard identity on the Internet. Get the full story »
From The Boston Globe | A study has concluded what lots of people have long suspected: Many of these irritating security measures forcing users to change passwords are a waste of time. The study, by a top researcher at Microsoft, found that changing passwords regularly does not stop online infiltration. “Most security advice simply offers a poor cost-benefit trade-off to users,” the author of the study wrote.
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