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Chip giant Intel has acquired Canadian identity management company PasswordBox, apparently in a move to address the issue of "password fatigue". The 44-strong company was formed 18 months ago in June 2013 and has 14 million users. This year Intel phased out its McAfee brand, which it bought in August 2010 for $7.6bn, in …

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  1. Buzzword

    The master key to all your accounts

    Another password manager app. Protect all your fiendishly hard-to-remember passwords with one single password. What could possibly go wrong?

    Just replace "standards" with "passwords" in the comic: http://xkcd.com/927/

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  2. Deryk Barker

    "ABOOT"??????????

    Has your headline writer ever MET a Canadian?

    The pronunciation is ABOAT...

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  3. A Known Coward

    Only 26 passwords?

    I'm cynical about the sample size of that survey if the average was that low ...

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    1. P. Lee
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      Re: Only 26 passwords?

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