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Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Wed Jun 20 17:54:44 2012

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:54:10 -0700
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120620213914.GA20633@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 6/20/2012 2:39 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Users would find it much more convenient and wonder why we ever used 
> passwords, I think... 

Yes. Those users who have a single computer with a single browser. For 
anyone with a computer *and* a smartphone, however, there's a huge 
missing piece. And it gets exponentially worse as the number of devices 
multiplies.

Matthew Kaufman


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