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From that link...pinball1970 said:
In the US, the statistics are as depressing as ever...strangerep said:
Is your picture Von Neumann?wrobel said:
C. S. Lewispinball1970 said:
I will read all those links. No passwords? That seems crazy!Oldman too said:
They authenticate using your phone. We do this at the hospital.pinball1970 said:
Not keen though Dave.DaveC426913 said:
Same with most banks.DaveC426913 said:
Sounds risky on first look, the links explain it pretty well though. The hackers are already at a work around for this unless I miss my guess. Still it is an improvement over the current system, we'll see soon enough.pinball1970 said:
? You mean you don't like it?pinball1970 said:
Not mine yet.Oldman too said:
Sorry, I should have specified, that only applies to bank employees. My granddaughter works in a bank and it's their default authentication for all employees. Seems to work great for them. There seems to be a fallback recovery method should you lose your phone.DaveC426913 said:
I'm not even using it yet personally but I'm rarely without the phone handy, I'll be glad to get rid of password authentication.DaveC426913 said:
wrobel said:
I can not explain that but I feel something not good to pass in such a way.pinball1970 said:
pinball1970 said:
He would have been on morphine I would guess. Anyway the list of contributions he made was something else.caz said:
Not read that only the Narnia books.Hornbein said:
My system is now part of it! It's just another thing, another layer. I cannot authenticate without my phone. Great!DaveC426913 said:
There's no doubt it's not ideal. But we don't have ideal yet.pinball1970 said:
I haven't seen this yet. I do have accounts where I type my password in, then it asks me to give the code they send to my phone. That seems like a good idea; someone breaking into my account needs to know the password and have my phone. For things like bank accounts, social security, medicare... I really do not mind, in fact, I like the added security.Oldman too said:
Yes Dave but I am not keen. Next it will be a link sent to a different e mail account which I verify via a 7 digit number sent to my phone. Once verified I go through some security steps and I have access to the security platform. This requires a 13 character code with upper lower case number and something else, *. At last now I get clearance to complete the on line profile of 6 step process which verifies my identity with respect to all the stuff I just did. The next step confused me so I was timed out. I need another code but need a different e mail account as the first has now been designated, 'not secure'DaveC426913 said: