You use passwords, possibly dozens of passwords, to authenticate to websites daily. Passwords are a useful authentication tool because they function as a “thing-you-know” (a shared secret between you and the server) and because passwords can be changed (in case of loss, unlike say, your fingerprints).
In a diatribe against OpenID titled, “Goodbye, Passwords. [...]
By Emil Sit
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Posted in Technology
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Also tagged authentication, bruce schneier, e-mail, encryption, FastMail, GMail, ING, Kim Cameron, openid, password, randall stross, security, session, Vanguard
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Boycott Performance Bike.
Performance is a company that sells bike components. They’re
pretty big and have acquired their former competitors like
Nashbar and SuperGo. That’s too bad because I really don’t like
Performance. Maybe you shouldn’t either.
In 2001, Kevin Fu and I (along with some other members
of the Applied Security Reading Group) were looking into
the security [...]