Yahoo recently introduced a new mechanism that is supposed to allow users to log in with temporary passwords that are sent to their smartphones. According to Yahoo, this is an attempt to simplify authentication for its services. Now this seems like this is a standard two-factor authentication system, the type where you need to provide […]
With all of the big news right now about widespread Internet surveillance, everyone has been scrambling to counter that with widespread encryption so that the NSA and other spy agencies or hackers can’t access our personal information so easily. Everyone has been trying to encrypt everything. Google was first to jump in, and now Yahoo is […]
