Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Wow, this is exciting news. No longer to you have to carry around a security dongle or pay money to get one. VeriSign created an application for the iPhone that does everything that one of their devices does and that I blogged about a few months ago.
Now you really have no excuse… if you have a PayPal or eBay account and an iPhone protect it from hackers with two factor authentication.
If you use VeriSign’s OpenID system, PIP… then this is a natural way to log into that service.
My hope is that more and more services will support two factor authentication via cell phones. VeriSign clearly has a leg up here, but I suspect RSA won’t be far behind in getting an RSA SecurID app out there.
Big Kudos to the VeriSign folks.