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Big Tech Joins Forces to End Passwords

Apple, Google and Microsoft have all agreed to implement the password-less system proposed by the FIDO Alliance.

The body, created by various technology companies in 2013 with the aim of ‘reducing the world’s reliance on passwords’, has announced that the three companies have committed to phasing out passwords. The agreement represents a big step in a challenge that the sector began to take seriously in 2016. They agree to recognise the problem: passwords are a burden for the user and the industry.

Recent studies reveal that a third of users repeat the same password, sometimes with minor alterations. The danger here is that if a cyber-attacker gets hold of one account password that is used for other sites, they can access the rest of the user’s profiles.