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Title	Smart cards are gaining on passwords alone
Type	Opinion
Source	Network World 07/19/2001
Summary	An early scene in the new movie "Swordfish" shows a hacker with a gun to his head, fingers flying fast and furious, cracking into a site seconds before his time limit expires. Later, I thought that if only the site in question had required smart card logon, the movie could have ended there and spared us another hour of unbelievable plot line and overdone special effects. continue

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