Facebook Pushes Passwords One Step Closer to Death [...] Flynn --- who goes by the nickname "Four" --- won't say what's in store for Facebook's employees this October, but one thing seems certain: Hacking them is going to be that much more of a challenge. Over the past year, the company has equipped many employee systems with Yubikeys, a little pieces of hardware that let employees securely log into machines with the tap of a finger. This nifty tool can make it that much harder for hackers to bust into a corporate network and do whatever they want --- even if the hacker manages to take command of an authorized network machine. The company that makes Yubikey says that the device has been picked up by seven of Silicon Valley's biggest companies, and Facebook is the second big-name web company to publicly get behind the device. Earlier this year, a group of Google researchersendorsed the thing <http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/>, saying they were fed up with passwords. Passwords aren't just a pain to type. In the end, they provide alimited amount of security <http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/01/simple-pw/>.[...] continua qui http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/10/facebook-yubikey/