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Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by goialoq on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:12PM (#15437069)
Here's one: don't do KBA, since that is an open door to fraud.
Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by foobarian on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:19PM (#15437130)
How about mandatory 2FA rfid token implants, then we can put this SSN business behind us.
Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by KGIII on Monday October 09, 2017 @05:09PM (#15437487)
You can't really mandate implants. Well, you could but that's how you get open revolution in the streets.
Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by freehunter on Monday October 09, 2017 @08:23PM (#15438437)
Luckily we already have 2fa implants. They're called retinas or fingerprints, to be used in conjunction with passwords.

What you have, what you know, what you are. Those are the three factors. Passwords and fingerprints are two of them.

Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by bognition on Monday October 09, 2017 @09:31PM (#15438666)
No actually those don't work for the same reason that SSNs don't work.

You need the ability to change out your password or 2fa if it gets compromised. You can't change your fingerprints or retinas.

Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by freehunter on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:47PM (#15443265)
Then I don't think you understand the various "factors" of security. I'd advise you to re-read the last line of my post that you replied to where I explained them. "What you are" is a completely valid factor for 2fa, when combined with either "what you have" (a token) or "what you know" (a password).

People need to stop complaining about biometric security if they don't understand the basic concepts of security in the first place. Re-read my first post and this one, and if you're still confused, look into factors of security. Hopefully you can stop parroting this nonsense that fingerprints are not a valid factor in 2fa.

Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by KGIII on Monday October 09, 2017 @08:38PM (#15438495)
I'm not sure I'd generally refer to those as implants, but point taken.