If I were asked to name the most pervasive piece of computing technology in the modern law firm, I’d be hard pressed to come up with a more commonplace hunk of hardware than the smart card. Our wallets and purses are positively teeming with these pocket-sized slices of microchip-laced plastic. Credit cards, phone cards, company ID cards, supermarket discount cards; nowadays, no one leaves home without one.
In security circles, smart cards are often employed as “tokens,” one component in a two-factor authentication scheme. Think of a two-factor scheme as two keys to a lock. One key is something you know (your password) and the other key is something that you have (the token or the card). Together, they verify your identity to open a lock. Tokens can also exist in software and reside in any small piece of hardware with storage capability, from a USB drive to the flash memory in a cell phone.
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