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The end of passwords? Hopefully.
Finally. Finally, formal standards have been published from the FIDO Alliance, whose aim is to do away with passwords through the use of techniques such as two-factor authentication and USB devices, and whose members list reads like a who’s who of big names: Google, Microsoft, Bank of America, Alibaba, ARM, Qualcomm, PayPal and Samsung, among many others.
I have been tired of passwords from quite some time, as you will or already have learned. Not only are you expected to have different passwords for everything, you are expected – in what I feel is the most repellant, counterproductive IT policy of all time – to change them every 90 days or so. Not only that, you can’t change them to something similar to the past five password you have used, and they have structural requirements involving length requirement, letters, numbers, it goes on and on and on. The result is that we end up re-using passwords that are easy to remember. Don’t believe it? Here you go:
