On: Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers

[betterunix]

At this point, passwords should be considered obsolete when it comes to securing things. We should be using smartcards and cryptographic techniques; humans are just not good enough at generating or remembering random strings for passwords to be considered a good idea.

[amalag → betterunix]

Yes I personally like the Yubikey idea which integrates with AD. Keeping a physical token and just pushing a button is nice.