Bill Gates: Why bother with passwords?
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @04:19PM
from the trustworthless-computing dept.
Matthew writes: Microsoft is planning to include new “Infocard” technology in Internet Explorer that will allow websites to extract personal information from your computer without requiring a password.
“We looked at the web landscape, and the security performance of both our web browser and Mozilla/Firefox, and we realized that any website can own your computer with spyware no matter what we do, so why bother with typing a password? We figure that by having a standardized protocol for a website to rifle through your personal information, they won’t have to install spyware to get it—and that’s a big security bonus.”
“We want to make sure security isn’t holding us back.“
Subject:Reprinting the AP report?
Sometimes the humor writes itself. Geez!
Comment by Tyson — February 17, 2006 @ 11:22 am