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 researchers endorsed the thing,
saying they were fed up with passwords. Passwords aren’t just a
pain to type. In the end, they provide a limited amount of
security.[...]
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