[153995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LinkedIn password database compromised
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Jun 20 18:06:53 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <4FE24682.9040408@matthew.at>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:06:40 -0400
To: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:54 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> 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...=20
>=20
> 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.
Not including the "app culture" that results in things like the Hilton =
(for example) app being just a bookmark into their mobile website. That =
does not make it a fully fledged application. I could have used my web =
browser to get to the same place and flow better as well :) (oh and the =
per-brand apps that exist as well.. *sigh*).
Not sure how to import my crypto key into those :)
- Jared
