Password Alternatives
In order to address the issues presented by memorization and security many businesses and internet sites have turned to accepting different types of authentication. This authentication could be a single use password, non-text based, Biometric, a 2D key, or Cognitive Passwords that are question based. But many of these options are more expensive, time consuming or still require some form of memorization. Thus most businesses and individuals still use the common format of single word and text based passwords, as security protection.
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