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« "Info-Card" sounds like a re-branded "Smartcard"  
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Tomek
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join:2002-01-30
Brooklyn, NY
·Packet8

Too many fronts

In a way, that may solve some problems, but still there are lots of other dangers. I don't use passwords myself on the laptop. I have SmartCard verification integrated into a BIOS.
I truly believe that hardware level security offers the best protection. And MS should focus, as said in the article, on making OS safe from trojans and man-in-the-middle attacks (my favorite )
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Xure

join:2003-11-14
Beverly Hills, CA

Are they for real?

Now concentrate the information on one thing so it may be easier to hijack my identity, why don't ya?

I can see it now, instead of piecing all the info together, one just has to get a hold of one file! I can see people clicking on phishing e-mail attachments that "only" swipe your "info-card" and the user is left with a feeling that nothing bad happened.

"Nothing bad", Joe Blow wonders, "I just clicked on this and nothing happened."


RDins

@comcast.net
Its already easy to hijack your identity.
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