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The Yubikey Is the Digital Seatbelt We Need

Another day another breach. Yesterday I got a notice in my mailbox that Ticketmaster was compromised and my data was once again in the hands of hackers.

Hardware security keys are small devices that plug into a computer or smart phone and provide a strong physical form of two-factor authentication. The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office should begin investigating companies in critical sectors like healthcare and finance and inventory whether they use hardware security keys. It is past time for our state government to bridge the gap between the private sector’s innovation and its adoption of security technology.

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