We’re a few months late catching up on all the announcements from this year’s RSA Conference.
Bill Gates gave the keynote, which was a chance to see just how much security change there’s been inside Microsoft since the Trustworthy Computing push. It hasn’t quite been a year of Patch Tuesdays yet (October 2003 was just six months ago), but having a predictable cadence seems to make the process of patch management easier for admins. After all, so many systems are still lagging behind patch levels that something helpful needs to be tried.
One of the things I wanted to highlight from Gate’s speech was the move away from passwords. As the article notes, Gates demonstrated the “…Microsoft Tamper Resistant Biometric ID Card, a cryptographically tamper-resistant identification card that can be easily deployed using simple, low-cost hardware and regular paper.” Here’s another article about it.
It’ll be cool to see a future where web apps can rely on hardware-backed authentication. That’d be a lot better than web apps coming up with weird rules about how users should compose their passwords.
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