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Re:A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords by bigbugbag on Sunday January 11, 2015 @05:30AM (#8869614)
I'll go even a step further and say:

passwords are a flawed solution

They have been through history and way before the industrialized world, not only that but what was considered secure yesterday may be compromised today or tomorrow. This is not going away any time soon and you have to design security taking this into account.

Another problem with password, it's that those web services we use password for collect way too much sensitive information that they should not be given in the first place.

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Re:A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords by marssaxman on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:34PM (#8877198)
People keep saying that passwords are flawed, but what else is there? Authentication depends on secret information, does it not?
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