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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore – Wired

November 15, 2012/in Internet Security

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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore
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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore. By Mat Honan; 11.15.12; 6:30 AM; Edit · Follow @mat. “This summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour,” says Wired senior writer Mat Honan. Photo …

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Microsoft account password: 16 characters is too long to protect Outlook.com & Skydrive?

August 17, 2012/in Internet Security

You probably know that Microsoft’s Hotmail is still touted as the “world’s largest e-mail service, with 324 million members.” The NYTimes reported, “But Gmail, only six years old, already has 278 million, and Microsoft was getting nervous.” So it was “Goodbye Hotmail, Hello Outlook.com.” Since that preview two weeks ago, Microsoft Windows Live vice president
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