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Martin Brinkmann over at ghacks.net brings us info on Windows 10 security changes:
The company started to open up only recently and reveal additional information about Windows 10. It published a lengthy blog post today on the Windows For Your Business blog that details security improvements coming to the operating system.
Aimed at business and enterprise customers, it provides insight for consumers as well.
One of the changes discussed in the blog post is how Microsoft plans to change how users identify themselves on the system. Microsoft plans to eliminate single-factor authentication systems such as user/password log ins by building improved protection right into the operating system.
Yeah, I know we're way off normal in Linux usership around here but we still have relatives whose computers we have to fix, so...
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday October 23 2014, @07:25PM
My alarm bells rang at "the computer or device itself is being used as a factor in the authentication process" since this suggests commodity hardware won't work with Windows 10
No it suggests no such thing. You've TOTALLY misread that.
This only applies in large corporate networks, not your home computer.
(Unless you log into OneDrive. Avoid OneDrive and Use SpiderOak, and this won't affect you at all).
In a corporate network your mac address, and your bluetooth mac address, and perhaps some other hardware identifiers, will be compared at login. If you log in from a computer you've never used before, you will see some extra questions asked, or you may be blocked entirely depending on your company's policy.
That's ALL it means.
And you better learn to embrace this because its not JUST windows [arstechnica.com] that is going to this level of security. Its long overdue. At my day job, we are already adding Fido Security [fidoalliance.org] capabilities to our applications.
I suspect you've bitched for years about lax Microsoft security. Come on, fess up!
Now that they are at least trying, you FUD them for trying.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.