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Article: The Boston Globe Venture Capital Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- April 22, 2002
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By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 22--Walk through almost any office and there they are: yellow sticky notes affixed to computers, bearing scribbled lists of supposedly secret passwords. So much for Internet security.
"This is a multibillion-dollar problem for companies," says Paul Maeder, managing general partner at the Lexington venture firm Highland Capital Partners. "The current state of security technology is passwords. People forget them. It's not secure and it's high maintenance."
At the other end of the spectrum is fingerprinting, an emerging method of checking a person's ID that falls under the ...