First level security: what you know, aka passwords
Second level security: what you have, aka tokens
Third level security: who you are, aka biometrics
Each level builds on the previous level. Now most software includes passwords and we have https, encryption, cryptoprotocols, etc...
Will programmers become redundant?
On the long run, yes. On the very long run. There's people out there trying earnestly to pave the way for a human-like artificial intelligence. And isn't it a CS milestone? An AI can have a huge advantage over humans in that it can directly sense code and work...
Well, my own charlatan managed to bring down the whole company! We were developing a very promising, mass market product when he arrived. The first thing he did was to survey the political environment and throw away all the code produced by my former colleague, a mathematician with a masters...
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