The FIDO Alliance came together in 2013 as security pros working at PayPal, Lenovo, and other companies began to get fed up with various password-based security holes. With biometric readers becoming more and more prevalent and a new set of specs that are easy to integrate into standard webpages via JavaScript APIs, our passwordless future may finally be in sight. FIDO Alliance members include some of the biggest names in tech and media, so this initiative has muscle behind it.


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Biometric Update: FIDO Alliance and India PKI Forum to collaborate on spreading digital security

Biometric Update reports that the FIDO Alliance has established a partnership with India PKI Forum to…

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Gizmodo: Everything You Need to Know About the Plan to Kill Internet Passwords

In this feature story, Gizmodo’s David Neild highlights FIDO’s WebAuthn standard, the latest push to…

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ZDNet: ​Windows 10: We’re going to kill off passwords and here’s how, says Microsoft

As part of Microsoft’s efforts to banish ‘​inconvenient, insecure, and expensive’ passwords, ZDNet reports on…

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