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Originally Posted by RickS
I think we'll be using two factor authentication* more widely soon, probably using mobile phones as the "token". Unfortunately, as the recent RSA debacle has shown, that's not foolproof either.
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The RSA breakin only affects people who use the tokens without a PIN. We've never done that. It has always been userid, password, RSA token and PIN. Without all four you get nowhere. My bank has been using the mobile phone to supply a token for ages.
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Originally Posted by astronut
The serious hackers are anarchists...they hate "our" world and everything in it!!  |
As a programmer who has been at it for about 40 years, can people please learn there is a difference between "hackers" and "crackers"?
Attacking password hashes is cracking. Because of these criminals we have moved to 12 character passwords which have to be changed every 90 days.
Hackers are those programmers who write clever solutions to problems. A "good hack" is programming to be proud of. An "ugly hack" or "kludge" is something that achieves the end but you would not want anyone to know you had anything to do with.
Calling "crackers" "hackers" is sloppy, and a symptom of the sensationalist times we live in.