The problem, Sarah, is that people are just unwilling to change passwords--unless forced to--when they have some forty or fifty to remember. They are more likely to use the same password for as many things as possible, and not change it.
I don't think that you can beat hackers period. They will do what they want when they want. The best method that does appear to work is to keep changing your password. That is the cheapest and safest option that you will find out there, period. So why try to fix anything that isn't 100% broken?
There were reports that LastPass may have been hacked in 2011, but no reports of actual passwords having been compromised. I figure everything involves some risk.
A security conscious friend uses LastPass and I let that be my guide.
I use LastPass to auto-generate, remember, and automatically paste in passwords. For the few passwords I have to type in by hand, I substitute some punctuation for letters, and use one or two other tricks to make the passwords easy to type, unique and secure (though not easy to remember -- I use LastPass for remembering those passwords too).
And despite what some security experts say, writing down passwords and storing the piece of paper someplace safe really isn't bad. As Bruce Schneier says, we have hundreds of years of experience at securing little pieces of paper.
Usman: Do you prefer to sign onto those accounts through your Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn account, or do you prefer to create a separate account where, if you want, you can use an alias that has absolutely nothing to do with your real name or location?
Martin Kuppinger spoke to Yubico's CEO in 2012. Google is using a YubiKey, developed by Yubicon, and some of the product and technology info is discussed in this blog.
Just like you do if you forget your password - you use an alternate method to recover the password.
@taimur_tz, thanks for the clarification. I will definitely download and try this app. It would be interesting to see in which cases it fails to recognise the face.
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The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
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The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
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