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How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke
For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and yet year after year, this security nirvana proves out of reach. Now, for the first time, a workable form of passwordless authentication is about to become available to the masses in the form of a standard adopted by Apple, Google, and Microsoft that allows for cross-platform and cross-service passkeys.
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And with this, whatever anonymity you may have left on the internet will be gone.
Good for implementing social credit scores, which I think is the goal here, not your convenience.