Microsoft to abandon passwords

Spinner (Spinner) Microsoft has revealed at a security panel at CeBIT that it is preparing to dump passwords in favour of two-factor authentication in forthcoming versions of Windows.

March 15, 2005 7:57 PM ET in News,

Microsoft has revealed at a security panel at CeBIT that it is preparing to dump passwords in favour of two-factor authentication in forthcoming versions of Windows.

“I believe that the time of password-only authentication is gone,” said Eckert. “We need to go to two-factor authentication. This is the only way to bring the level of trust business needs.”

What’s wrong with my current password “password”?

Source: Vnunet

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2 Comments:

  1. mmonnin
    15 Mar '05, 8:27 pm

    Or like my passwords at school. They make us change it so often I just ended up doing password, password1, password2....Someone is like on password14 or so.

  2. CyrixInstead
    16 Mar '05, 9:32 am

    Lol password8 for me

    ~Cyrix

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