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In this Spotlight* podcast, Yaser Masoudnia of LogMeIn and LastPass talks about the continued persistence of the password in enterprise IT environments and how its inevitable demise (and replacement) may be closer than you would think.
If you look back the seminal hacking film, 1983’s War Games, not much about the technology will seem familiar. The computer monitors are monochrome. There are modems instead wired – let alone wireless networks – to connect computers to the Internet and each other. Data is stored on 5 1/2” floppy disks. But one bit of technology is strikingly familiar: the password.
High school student David Lightman ( played by Matthew Broderick) makes a game of finding and using them: hacking into his school’s grading system and, eventually, guessing the password needed to access a back door account on a military supercomputer.