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Loyalty cards are the Main Street version of requiring you to log in and provide a password for every website that needs to know you.
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Other digital files would be uploaded to a password-protected website, where Operation Photo Rescue's roughly 3, 000 volunteers can choose images they'd like to work on.
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Open ID was dreamed up as a way to ease the mental and administrative burden of having a different login identity and password for almost every website.
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Access to the Family Link website requires an OnStar user name and password.
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To make a purchase on a website, a MasterPass user would enter a password on the checkout page of a merchant who has installed the service as a payment option instead of typing in their card number, security code and other information that experts say slows down e-commerce transactions.
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Reporting on the hack, technology website techcrunch.com recommended that Twitter users who have the same password for other websites like Facebook or their email should change them.
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In June, a programming error at Internet-based storage firm Dropbox Inc. temporarily allowed any password to be used to access any user account on its website, though Dropbox says fewer than 100 accounts were affected.
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Interestingly, I noticed that the password is not case-sensitive kind of odd for a website that seems so focused on security.
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Now they are increasing their focus on technology consumers can use to make purchases by simply entering a password or other easy-to-remember information on an e-commerce website, or by tapping a smartphone against a merchant payment terminal instead of swiping a physical card.
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In the near term, this can mean helping consumers better understand password manager software, which gives users the power to set arbitrarily complex passwords that are website-specific, without forcing users to memorize them all.
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