Re: mobile phone + password = 2 factor auth?

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On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:44 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> A problem with phones is, that they are typically not as secure as hardware 
> tokens. Users can install custom software on them. Also the phone may be 
> compromised via bluetooth. It might be even possible to directly access text 
> messages via bluetooth or maybe also wifi nowadays.
> 

Wouldn't that be why you have to combine what comes up on your phone
with the password you know, so that just the phone alone can't get you
in?

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Jesse Keating
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