The latest new technology to upend both online business and your own privacy is social login.
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An obvious advantage of a social login is that it is much easier for the user.
Your login is "pi" and the password will be what you set it to earlier.
We all know those web pages where the only alternative to a site-specific login is a social networking account.
When someone who has enabled the feature is unable to login using the normal means, they can click "forgot my password" and request that keys be sent to their specified friends via Facebook message.
With internet users of all ages accessing mobile and desktop services, a broad swath of login education is needed.
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The issue was quickly resolved and Login with Facebook is now working as usual.
The social login genie, it seems, is out of the bottle and cannot be put back.
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The first is to add the Terminal application to your Login Items.
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If a user has set up that safeguard and no code appears when he or she is prompted to log in, then the login page might be fake.
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This is potentially a much bigger opportunity than the social login piece (though potentially fraught with privacy landmines).
Keys is charged with giving the hacking group Anonymous the login credentials to the computer system of The Tribune Co.
Dow Jones Interactive, for example, hosts a searchable archive of the world's top 6000 news publications and is precisely the kind of site where an automatic login would be useful.
Matthew Keys is charged with supplying hackers in December 2010 with the login credentials to the computer network of Tribune Co.
Getting started is simple: Visit Aereo.com, create a login and password and, subject to capacity, consumers can begin using Aereo Try For Free immediately.
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Biometric technology is even available for use at home in the form of inexpensive computer login products, according to Paul Collier of biometrics leader Identix.
There are other reputation sites, like soulgoal.com (which also uses a Facebook login) and Duedil, a site for due diligence that is supposed to open in late November.
The true promise of Google Talk--and the company's likely goal--is to eventually provide full telephone capabilities and to make a user's Google login his primary point of contact, on- or offline.
Although it has the same kind of simple approach to a login as a Facebook or Twitter pop-up window, Persona's emphasis is on privacy: it stops paying attention the moment credentials go through, keeping any diatribes or subscription details from landing in social streams or central databases.
Customers typically choose a login and password so that their bank information can't be accessed if a phone is lost or stolen.
Millions of websites now employ social login, driven by the fact that the old site-specific registration and password system is no longer scalable.
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The trials are for those running websites to see how Microsoft is working with the Open ID standards, and how to go about accepting that version as a login identifier.
Keys acquired the login information while serving as the web producer for the Sacramento-based FOX station KTXL, which is owned by Tribune Co.
Once the device is infected, malware can collect and send data from the device, such as location information, personal information and login credentials, to untrusted third parties.
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