A couple of days ago the New York Times broke a story describing how Russian hackers amassed more than billion internet passwords, along with 500 million email address, from over 420,000 large and small websites. Yesterday, The Verge questioned the veracity of these numbers, concluding that this number may be a compendium of both old and new breaches, many from small sites of limited impact. However you slice it, this is a stark example of the failure of passwords as a scalable security solution.

The vast majority of users use the same, or just a few, passwords across multiple sites. (Don’t kid yourself. If you’re reading this you’re almost certainly an IT or security professional, and you probably do too.)

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