REALITY CHECK
COMPUTER PASSWORDS: IS THERE A BETTER WAY TO SECURE YOUR DEVICES?
REVIEW
Google’s new passkey software offers a biometric replacement for old-fashioned passwords. So can we finally forget about having to remember all those sequences of numbers, letters and symbols?
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE HEADLINES
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“Security experts prefer methods that perform authentication of your identity instead of just authentication of your device”
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WHAT’S WRONG WITH PASSWORDS?
The very first digital passwords were invented by an MIT professor in the mid 1960s who needed to give multiple users private access to the same giant computer. Passwords soon became ubiquitous in our computers and it’s easy to see why – a simple, memorable word is quick and easy to input when you want to gain access to your computer.