Archive for 'authentication' Category
Get your German interior minister’s fingerprint here
One problem with biometrics is that once they’re out there’s no way to revoke or change them. Another problem is that you leave them all over the place every day. The German interior minister might want to think about that.
You can guess 40,000 billion passwords a second for about 10 million bucks
David Jevans, CEO of IronKey was on Security Now 135 and stunned me with this quote: “You can guess 40,000 billion passwords a second for about 10 million bucks”. Now that’s some serious speed (and some serious money), but nothing I don’t expect several governments to have to hand. Keep those passwords strong and long…
AOL implements OpenID for all AOL Screen Names
I feel the news that AOL has enabled all screen names as OpenIDs is a good enough reason to taint my website with a link to AOL. Well done AOL! You can find out more about OpenID at http://openid.net/.
Want a beer? Give your fingerprints
The Register reports: “The government is funding the roll out of fingerprint security at the doors of pubs and clubs in major English cities” to kerb drink-related violence. I agree that drink related violence is out of hand in the UK but fingerprinting patrons does not solve the problem. I also disagree with being fingerprinted [...]