Gates makes another prediction: bye bye passwords |
Loading ...Bill Gates is going to need a psychic line if he keeps up with the predictions. Recently, he predicted the death of spam within 2 years (see Gates prediction: spam gone within two years). Now Mr. Gates is predicting the
death of the password:
However, Gates said that Microsoft would not be using the SecurID system internally because it had opted for a smart-card system–with the help of RSA. “Microsoft recently moved to a smart card approach, and a key partner in this was RSA,” he said.
Microsoft also demonstrated “tamper resistant” biometric ID-card software, developed by its own research arm, that can be used by both small and large companies to create ID cards using a digital camera, an inkjet printer and a business-card scanner.
While Gates is dabbling with this prediction stuff, how about predicting the death of spyware?
[…] In February 2004 Gates also predicted the death of the password. Though he gave no timetable on that prediction, Gates said: “There is no doubt that over time, people are going to rely less and less on passwords. People use the same password on different systems, they write them down and they just don’t meet the challenge for anything you really want to secure.” […]
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