Google, Apple, and Microsoft Take One Step Closer to a Passwordless Future with FIDO

Tsing

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Today is World Password Day, and Google has decided to celebrate by announcing its latest step in getting rid of passwords entirely by expanding its support of FIDO to Chrome and Android devices, a sign-in standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the FIDO Alliance that aims to ease and simplify user access.

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Tsing said:
Today is World Password Day, and Google has decided to celebrate by announcing its latest step in getting rid of passwords entirely by expanding its support of FIDO to Chrome and Android devices, a sign-in standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the FIDO Alliance that aims to ease and simplify user access.

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How dare you ruin Cinco de Mayo!! It is not password day it's ****ty bargain margarita day!!!
 
Bull. Aint getting into this either. Yeah a key master gives you a copy of all the keys to to your websites, and suuuuure its all 100% secure and private. No. No no and no. Centralized planning for passwords, supported by friends at MS, google etc. Yeah, completely private. Any company doing this, my god.
 
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Bull. Aint getting into this either. Yeah a key master gives you a copy of all the keys to to your websites, and suuuuure its all 100% secure and private. No. No no and no. Centralized planning for passwords, supported by friends at MS, google etc. Yeah, completely private. Any company doing this, my god.
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That's exactly the issue.

In order to make these systems convenient and work across all your devices, etc. etc. the service provider has to control your master key. There is no other way.

If you control the master key, then you are going to have to manually transfer it to every device you use.

Now, if someone else controls your master key, that someone else can decrypt and access all of your passwords. Or, someone can steal that master key and do the same.

All of these solutions sacrifice security for convenience, and they are a bad idea.
 
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