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- We live in a world where we as individuals want to access lots and lots of computers. I mean, just think about this. In your normal browsing life, you go to all kinds of different websites. Those are actual computers, and you have to access them. Now, web might be a little bit of a tricky one because web is a public kind of tool, but we could trivially add usernames and passwords to any website that we wanted to. People don't do it very often, but you can. Let's take a better example. Let's talk about a local area network. So here at Total Seminars, we've got lots and lots of computers, and people are sharing stuff. And we got servers and printers and all kinds of things that I as an individual want to be able to access. In a typical Windows workgroup, what we do is we have, well, here's an example. We've got three or four computers, and we got a printer and whatever it might be. Now, each one of these hosts have their own username and password list, and it works great. The…

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