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Will Secure Authentication Remove the Need for Credentials?


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December 18, 2017 By Shimrit Tzur-David
 
Passwords – devising them, remembering them, typing them in – can be a hassle for users, but polls on whether users would be willing to use alternative authentication methods are all over the place. Some show that users would rather use “anything” than passwords to authenticate their identities, while others claim that most users are fine with passwords. 
 
But a poll of hackers asking them whether they would be in favor of a mass change of current authentication methods is rarely considered, because it would likely show that hackers would be opposed to users – their target victims – trading in their passwords for, say, Apple's new Face ID. 
 
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  • Community Guide
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  • December 18, 2017
Interesting dilemma I for one would keep the passwords..................but....................make them extremely difficult and changed often.

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  • August 28, 2021

I need the Authenticator code please, now


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