It's conceivable that one day biometrics may replace passwords completely, across many different services...
The more news that trickled in about last year's Sony hack, the more depressing the situation appeared to get. At one point, it was revealed that the entertainment giant was keeping passwords to internal systems as well as social network accounts in plain text. Not only that, but they were kept in a folder called 'Password'.
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