The alternative to passwords is to be launched as early as the end of the year. That is the goal of the FIDO Alliance, whose members include companies such as Microsoft, Google and Apple, as well as authorities such as the German Federal Office for Information Security. The aim is to make log-ins as easy as unlocking a smartphone.


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