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Story: Is the age of the password over?

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Having worked in the IT industry for over twenty years I have seen quite a number of techniques for storing and retrieving data. The one lesson I have learned is that you never trust users to look after their own data. Sometimes even a password is a chore!

Eventually people will realise that the only way for people to 'reliably' access their data and associated facilities (ie credit, public and private access to premises etc) is by having a small chip implanted. That way they can't leave home without it. Don't have to remember card, don't have to remember password, don't have to remember keys, don't even have to remember who you are! With Chip readers everywhere and everyone carrying around their own KEY to the information and not the actual info itself. I'm amazed nobody has thought of it before.

Or maybe they have and are just waiting for the right opportunity to implement it?

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