Things really have improved, according to a new Dashlane study, and yet we’re sure that many of the sites you use all the time have yet to get the memo about passkeys.

Dashlane’s latest report about passkeys doesn’t offer fresh insights about why adoption of this account-security upgrade remains so uneven, but it does draw out two selfish reasons for sites to deploy it: either they’re afraid of a sign-in snafu costing them a single sale, or they fear a compromised login will cost them a customer’s money and then all of that person’s future business. In fewer words: Greed clarifies. 


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The Guardian: RIP passwords: new web standard designed to replace login method

In this article, The Guardian’s Samuel Gibbs reports that “WebAuthn will eliminate need for passwords…

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Motherboard: Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web

In this article, FIDO Alliance Executive Director Brett McDowell tells Motherboard about WebAuthn, saying “What…

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The Verge: Chrome and Firefox will support a new standard for password-free logins

In his reporting on the newly announced FIDO2 Project, The Verge reporter Russell Brandon predicts…

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