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Microsoft to abandon passwords

Microsoft to abandon passwords

Microsoft has revealed at a security panel at CeBIT that it is preparing to dump passwords in favour of two-factor authentication in forthcoming versions of Windows.

“I believe that the time of password-only authentication is gone,” said Eckert. “We need to go to two-factor authentication. This is the only way to bring the level of trust business needs.”

What’s wrong with my current password “password”?

Source: Vnunet

Comments

  1. mmonnin
    mmonnin Or like my passwords at school. They make us change it so often I just ended up doing password, password1, password2....Someone is like on password14 or so.
  2. CyrixInstead
    CyrixInstead Lol password8 for me ;D

    ~Cyrix

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