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		30 years of failure: the username/password combination (arstechnica.com)
		5 points by abraham on Oct 13, 2009 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

DanielStraight on Oct 14, 2009 [–]

I think we all knew that passwords were not optimal. Why isn't there more discussion of the alternatives? What are the alternatives?

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