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Google Wants to Replace All Your Passwords with a Ring
MIT Technology Review ^ | March 12, 2013 | By Tom Simonite

Posted on 03/12/2013 1:24:54 PM PDT by Red Badger

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
1 posted on 03/12/2013 1:24:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: ShadowAce

Tech Ping!.............


2 posted on 03/12/2013 1:25:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Red Badger

Uh, huh. And when that ring gets stolen, or “borrowed” by your kids ... ???


3 posted on 03/12/2013 1:26:44 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: Red Badger
My Precious!
4 posted on 03/12/2013 1:28:05 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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To: Red Badger

For years I’ve had a chip in my brain stem so I can receive my marching orders directly from the Manchester Union Leader and the Wall Street Journal editorial page.


5 posted on 03/12/2013 1:28:16 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Red Badger

I prefer Google’s 2-step model instead. You get an app for your phone and then it provides one time passwords when you login. Works well and you don’t need anything intrusive.


6 posted on 03/12/2013 1:29:28 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Red Badger

"The Ring! I can't believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book! What a goof! What's with you man? Come on! You know what? Here let me give it back to you."

[throws it down the grate] "Oh, look, you fell for that too! I can't believe it, man!"

7 posted on 03/12/2013 1:29:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: billorites

Bill Loeb is dead, and the paper ain’t the same. Could’ve been worse, at least you didn’t go with National Review.


8 posted on 03/12/2013 1:30:27 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("C'est la vie" say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. -- Chuck Berry)
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To: Red Badger

The end of anonymity online, and also one short step from an implanted chip.


9 posted on 03/12/2013 1:30:39 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Just buy one of these:

http://www.dadshop.com.au/whistle-key-finder


10 posted on 03/12/2013 1:30:58 PM PDT by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: dfwgator

First smile of the day! Thanks!


11 posted on 03/12/2013 1:31:52 PM PDT by petro45acp (No good endeavour survives an excess of adult supervision)
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To: billorites

Better get one of these......

12 posted on 03/12/2013 1:31:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Red Badger

Shall I name mine “The Precious”, or “Isildur’s Bane”? Decisions, decisions .....


13 posted on 03/12/2013 1:32:02 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: DBrow

Retina scans will be next........

14 posted on 03/12/2013 1:34:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Red Badger

Oh I’m sure that Google would just love to get all my passwords loaded into a device they designed.

It’s never going to happen though.


15 posted on 03/12/2013 1:34:49 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Red Badger

Sauron hoping to create millions of Nazgul?


16 posted on 03/12/2013 1:36:25 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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Damn. Beat me to it. Okay, then, here goes:

"Ash nazg thrakbatuluk, .....
Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!"

Howzat?

17 posted on 03/12/2013 1:36:42 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Red Badger

I am SURE that little USB ring is COMPLETELY waterproof, shockproof, etc., so you can wear it all the time, shower with it, work with it, swim with it, etc., right?
And it will almost NEVER be lost, stolen or misplaced.
Dumb idea.


18 posted on 03/12/2013 1:37:27 PM PDT by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: Red Badger
He said that using personal hardware to log in would remove the dangers of people reusing passwords or writing them down

Uh, how about when it gets stolen, broken or dropped in the toilet? How do you log on to report it stolen and get a new one? How many tax dollars will be spent to give another bling-bling to the welfare scum and how much will the working stiffs have to fork over for it? No, thanks.

19 posted on 03/12/2013 1:38:06 PM PDT by bgill
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Retina scans will be next........

Hotlinked, of course, to your gene sequence, Social, federal LE and DHS files, and RW 4D location at that instant.

20 posted on 03/12/2013 1:38:46 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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