Comments on: Gates: Passwords passe

Biometric and smart-card technology will replace passwords to verify ID, Microsoft head Bill Gates says--again.

[unknown unknown]

Thumbprint scanners can be defeated with gummy bears.

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[David Arbogast]

Only the ones in your price range.

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[unknown unknown]

Thumbprint scanners can be defeated with gummy bears.

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[David Arbogast]

Only the ones in your price range.

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[i,Jimbot]

Blah blah blah.....

For decades, Bill Gates has made predictions that are supposed
to happen "in the future" or "very soon". When most of his
predictions don't come to pass, he's never held accountable.

His is the shotgun approach - make a lot of predictions and one
or two may turn out to be true. Meantime, look at the
predictions he made about what Longhorn is supposed to do.
Now it's late and it's not going to do many of the things he said
it would.

This guy is no seer - he's a businessman.

[i,Jimbot]

Blah blah blah.....

For decades, Bill Gates has made predictions that are supposed
to happen "in the future" or "very soon". When most of his
predictions don't come to pass, he's never held accountable.

His is the shotgun approach - make a lot of predictions and one
or two may turn out to be true. Meantime, look at the
predictions he made about what Longhorn is supposed to do.
Now it's late and it's not going to do many of the things he said
it would.

This guy is no seer - he's a businessman.

Sorry, Bill

So if bill's idea falls through, your passwords are secure. Am I
the only one who still doesn't feel safe? Rooting a windows box
is 4 minutes for a script kiddie on neworder.box.sk, or some
other site, and guess what? Very few of those exploits involve
any form of password. We might be secure if we all used
thumbscanners, optical scanners, and voice identification, but
then again, our computers would also be fairly secure in a safe
in the middle of fort knox. Secure, but not convienent. I say if
people are having security problems with thier windows, get a
free-BSD or something. You know, a REAL computer.
Not trying to flame or anything, hell one of my computers is
windows, just pointing out what should be obvious.

-Charre

Sorry, Bill

So if bill's idea falls through, your passwords are secure. Am I
the only one who still doesn't feel safe? Rooting a windows box
is 4 minutes for a script kiddie on neworder.box.sk, or some
other site, and guess what? Very few of those exploits involve
any form of password. We might be secure if we all used
thumbscanners, optical scanners, and voice identification, but
then again, our computers would also be fairly secure in a safe
in the middle of fort knox. Secure, but not convienent. I say if
people are having security problems with thier windows, get a
free-BSD or something. You know, a REAL computer.
Not trying to flame or anything, hell one of my computers is
windows, just pointing out what should be obvious.

-Charre