A tech industry coalition including Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. is working to expand adoption of a secure alternative to the common password. Under agreements struck this year, a new standard known as FIDO, short for Fast IDentity Online, will be built into major operating systems such as macOS, iOs, Windows 11, Chrome OS and Android in the coming months. Users will have the choice to opt in to the new protocols, which will allow them to log in securely without a password.
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The Canadian Press: Death of the password? New web standard trades passcodes for biometrics
The Canadian Press reports that experts are “excited about the prospect of making logins “unphishable””…
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…
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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