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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by mathattack on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @09:28AM (#7143962)
Credit card #s and social security #s are not secure. But what should companies use instead? We're a long way from everyone having fingerprint scanners, and I'm sure there will be a way to break that too.

Isn't the solution more around recovering from when the break-ins inevitably happen?

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by if_by_whisky on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @10:02AM (#7144183)
Fingerprint scanners sound worse than credit cards to me... Why would you want a password that you can't ever change and leave copies of everywhere you go?
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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by mcone on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @10:51AM (#7144528)
Because fingerprints should be used as usernames, not passwords.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by ecocentrik on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @11:23AM (#7144793)
That's probably not a great idea for anything other than very secure systems where users aren't concerned with privacy, flexibility of identity or anonymity.
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