We've been promised a safer, password-free future for years. But it seems that 2022 will really be the year when millions of people stop using passwords. Apple announced Passkeys at the WWDC 2022. This means that passwordless logins will be available for Macs, iPhones and iPads with the next update of the operating system in...
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A passwordless future comes to all major platforms in 2023
Tech giants Apple and Google announced they had committed to passwordless sign in across all platforms they control over the next year. This means that passwordless authentication is coming to all major platforms within the next year: Android and iOS mobile operating system; Chrome, Edge and Safari browsers; Windows and macOS desktop environments. Google published...
What is Passwordless Authentification and why is it important?
Fernando Corbato was a MIT professor in the 1960s. When he was creating a new type of shared computer system, he wanted people to be able protect their files. A password was his solution. Corbato's solution was the most popular and widely used method of authenticating users for decades. But there's a catch: Passwords are...