Apple, Google, and Microsoft to soon implement passwordless sign-in
In a joint effort, tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft have committed to building support for passwordless sign-in across all of the mobile, desktop, and browser platforms that they control in the coming year.
This means that passwordless authentication will come to all major device platforms in the near future. A passwordless login process will let users choose their phones as the main authentication device for apps, websites, and other digital services.
Kurt Knight, Senior Director of platform product marketing at Apple, said, “Working with the industry to establish new, more secure sign-in methods that offer better protection and eliminate the vulnerabilities of passwords is central to our commitment to building products that offer maximum security and a transparent user experience — all with the goal of keeping users’ personal information safe.”
By making logins conditional on a physical device, users will simultaneously benefit from simplicity and security. Without a password, there will be no obligation to remember login details across services or compromise security by reusing the same password in multiple places.
A passwordless system will make it much more difficult for hackers to compromise login details remotely since signing in requires access to a physical device; and, theoretically, phishing attacks where users are directed to a fake website for password capture will be much harder to mount.
Apple, Google, and Microsoft have said that they expect the new sign-in capabilities to become available across platforms in the next year, although a more specific roadmap has not been announced.
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