Apple has joined the FIDO Alliance.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for ZDNet:
“Passwords are like the cockroaches of the internet and companies have been trying to kill them off for years,” said Merritt Maxim, Forrester Research principal security analyst in a CNBC interview. WebAuth, is a specification written by the W3C and FIDO. Its application programming interface (API) allows servers to register and authenticate users using public key cryptography instead of a password.
Rolf Lindemann, co-chair of FIDO’s Security Requirements Working Group… believes that now that Apple is getting a first-hand look into where FIDO is heading, it can help direct it. This will “result in support for passwordless authentication that best fits the Apple ecosystem.”
MacDailyNews Take: Die, passwords, die!. Anyone who supports older parents, in-laws, etc. knows the pain of passwords implicitly.
Where it matters I will always want a secure password on to of any other fancy authentication method.
Prefer passwords.
It smells to me like a Rightwinger, corporatist nirvana, the hackers’ promosed land characterized by “break-in once, steal forever” in delight and peace.
John Dingdongdangler, smuttista, smells to me like a leftwinger, communist nirvana, the Bolshevik’s promised land characterized by “break-you once, farkyew forever” in delight and peace. Commies like you need to be strung up and exxy cuted post haste.
This is welcome news!