Are passwords dead?
Bruce Potter · Network Security · 2005
Over the last 30 years of information security, there has been one constant protection mechanism deployed on systems all over the world: passwords. Be it your four digit automatic teller machine PIN, your eight character Windows workstation password, or the WEP key protecting your wireless network, the idea of “something you know” has been the one factor of authentication everyone can live with. But have we reached a point where passwords are obsolete?