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SMS a weak link in two-factor authentication: data guru

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"Narayanan, who was participating in the Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, was responding to a prompt from panel moderator Zulfikar Ramzan, the chief technology office of RSA.

"We were looking at some of the rhetoric around cryptocurrencies... the rhetoric being that it's ultra-secure, because it relies only on math and cryptography," Narayanan said. "And while that part is true, what is also happening is that a lot of people are losing their cryptocurrencies in very, very low-tech old-fashioned ways that brings us right back to the human element.""

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