Three of the world’s biggest technology companies have said they are working together on a future without passwords.
In fact, the Apple, Google and Microsoft may no longer require passwords from next year.
The initiative came from FIDO Alliance, an association that aims to promote and develop authentication standards that help combat password “dependency”, and the World Wide Consortiumwhich, with 450 members (including government bodies), is the main standardization organization for the World Wide Web and aims to create standards for the development and interpretation of content for the Web.
This may be a controversial innovation, but it has noble motives behind it, such as the search for a simpler and safer experience. This way, the average user won’t need to remember complex combinations of special characters and capital letters… but they will need to have their phone nearby.
In effect, authentication would have to be done via the smartphone of those who use the platforms of the aforementioned tech giants. In other words, although it may seem paradoxical, although there would be fewer passwords, there would be more security, as a possible intruder would need to have the user’s smartphone in their possession.
