Saturday 11 May 2013

PayPal says it's time to ditch passwords & PINs

How many online services do you have accounts with?  How many passwords?  How many unique passwords?  How many passwords can you remember? 

For many reasons, most people have weak passwords & reuse the same password on different sites.  PayPal says passwords aren't cutting it any more — time for something new.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/?newsid=3446582

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