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Make sure you protect access to your device with a password or PIN to keep intruders out if the device is lost or stolen.
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The article froths with agitated exclamation points around the idea that an iWatch could log you into your iOS device, sans typed password, like a key fob for your car.
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Most importantly, Apple hints at a much broader strategy for password recovery with device peripherals.
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Also, more than three of every 10 smartphone users have no password on their device according to a global survey by Web security firm McAfee.
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But consider the token that Braintree is using: the fingerprint of your device plus your location plus a password.
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Many of the world's banks require customers to log in to online banking by using a small security device to generate a one-off password.
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Prior to iOS 4.3 if a user entered their password to make a purchase their device would allow unlimited further sales without authentication for a 15-minute period.
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Hours later, investigators bypassed the password and searched through the data on the device without a search warrant.
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Can you, for instance, log in from a Web browser, reset your password, and then restore your content to a new device?
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The card has touch-sensitive buttons and the ability to create a "one-time password" - doing away with the need for a separate device sometimes needed to log in to online banking.
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Since there's no physical interface on the device to configure WiFi, the company's developed Blinkup, a way to enter SSID and password information on any iOS and Android smartphone and beam it to the Electric Imp's light sensor by rapidly pulsing the handset's screen on and off.
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