What is a passkey and is it the future of online security.

• 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
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• 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