This just arrived; seems germane to the discussion, for any of you who are local to Silicon Valley area.

From: "PayPal's TechXploration" <info@meetup.com> Subject: Monday: Join 347 Xplorers at "The Grand Challenge to Kill Passwords for Good"

Monday The Grand Challenge to Kill Passwords for Good PayPal's TechXploration Monday, November 18, 2013 6:00 PM PayPal Town Hall 2161 North 1st Street San Jose, CA 95131 Will you attend? Yes No 347 Xplorers attending, including: Max Gorbunov "Physicist, software developer" Van Riper "I work in Google Developer Relations as the Global Program Manager for Google Developer Groups: http://developers.google.com/groups/" Sanjay Shroff "Sanjay Shroff http://www.linkedin.com/in/shroffsanjay http://www.shroff.ca http://www.facebook.com/sanjays..." Lourdes "Hi" Alvin Wang "hi" Suyash Joshi "devloper" "Our intention is to really obliterate, within a certain number of years, both passwords and PINs and see the whole Internet—including internally in enterprisess—obliterate user IDs and passwords and PINs from the faace of the planet.”

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