What is a passkey and is it the future of online security.
personDunei News
January 13, 2024
- now with so much of our time spent
- online it can feel like we're constantly
- filling in passwords and inevitably
- forgetting them and having to think up
- new ones as a result but could that soon
- be a thing of the past major Tech and
- internet firms have started turning to
- pass Keys a no password solution which
- uses Biometrics or device pins to
- protect our accounts online our cyber
- correspondent Joe tidy can tell us more
- Pass key pass key pass Keys pass Keys
- you may not yet have heard of them but
- pass keys are the future of how we stay
- safe online dozens of Internet
- businesses large and small are hoping
- this new bit of tech will finally kill
- off the password so what are pass keys
- and why are they a step up from what
- we've been doing all these years well if
- you think about an online service as a
- door you get in by putting in your
- password or a
- passcode but this is obviously insecure
- as all of frauds the needs is the code
- or password and they're in a pass key
- acts a little bit like a key card it
- checks who I am as well as if I have the
- right
- code but with pass Keys it's all done on
- a device and with clever encryption
- setting up a pass key takes a few
- minutes the online service asks you to
- verify your identity using your device
- it's not hard but it is more of a hassle
- than setting up a username and password
- like we've always done so why is this
- huge shift taking place and is it worth
- it well it's because passwords are and
- always have been a terrible way to keep
- us safe
- Cory Macy is a hacker for the good guys
- she's been breaking into computer
- networks for companies for years to help
- them improve defenses people are really
- bad when they create passwords um nine
- out of 10 times when I go into an
- environment and I try the password
- summer 2023 or winter 2023 you're going
- to get a few accounts uh we find that
- people frequently use seated passwords
- like Nashville Predators 12 that's the
- first password that they made and then
- across every platform they'll just
- change it very minuscule when out
- passwords can of course be made more
- secure my password manager needs an
- authentication
- code it's no surprise that the cyber
- security world has largely failed to get
- the general public to jump through the
- Hoops needed to make passwords safe so
- now whether we like it or not the future
- of logging in online is through our
- phones with thumbprints PIN codes and
- increasingly facial ID no system will
- ever fully be hacker proof but pass keys
- do me mean that the future's brighter
- for our lives online Joe tidy
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