Saturday, January 5, 2008
Type of website:
PersonalResource Name/URL: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/03/the_failure_of.html
Resource Description: It is a personal website that talks about the failure of 2fa, saying that “It's not going to secure online accounts from fraudulent transactions”. This is purely from the writer’s opinion, not the fact.
Type of website:
PersonalResource Name/URL: http://blog.ironkey.com/?p=54
Resource Description: This is a blog by Dave Jevans, this webpage displayed the others opinion too. Some described 2FA as a useless device by itself.
Type of website:
Organization
Resource Name/URL: http://www.ocbc.com/personal-banking/2FA/2fa.shtml
Resource Description: OCBC official website that talks briefly about the use of 2FA in their internet and mobile banking.
Type of website:
Subject-Based
Resource Name/URL:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid14_gci1168308,00.htmlResource Description: It describes the different types of authentications including 2FA.
The search facility I used to search for the resources is:
http://www.google.com/Keywords used:
2 Factor Authentication
2FAMajor Difference amongst the three types of websites:
Personal: informal, incomplete sentences, more of opinions.
Organisation: formal, description of product and how it helps them to provide better service
Subject-Based: formal, specific focus
This research helps me realize that there are different types of websites. From here I will know which website to look for when doing a research of a product, I will not look for personal website as it is not reliable as their information are of personal opinions.
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