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Security Flaws Could Undermine Trust In Apple's Mobile Payment Ambitions

By Anthony Wing Kosner, Contributor

It’s starting to look like the Apple Maps fiasco all over again. The latest Kafkaesque turn of events, reported by The Verge, goes something like this: Apple introduces two factor authentication for Apple Ids two years after Google; another in a series of lock screen exploits makes it possible to reset a user’s password using only their email address and birthdate; the only protection against the exploit is to activate the two factor authentication; many users found themselves in line with a three day wait to add the authentication to their accounts. Awkward! …read more
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