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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never forget that technologically speaking you're nothing like the average user. Only 1 in 3 users use password managers. Most people just remember 1 password and use it everywhere (or some other similarly weak setup).

Not remembering passwords is a huge boon for most users, and passkeys are a very simple and secure way of handling it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I work for multiple organizations. The majority of which have a Google sheet with their passwords in that are

      c0mpanyname2018!

Those that aren't are

       pandasar3cute123?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

At one point the organization I work for had a password that was literally Password-022!, guess what it was the following month?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Exactly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I had to start hashing passwords and sending it to the haveibeenpwned API.

I also fight with my users over data normalization because any time I add some rule (like don’t put “SO#” as part of the value of the “SO#” field), they’re too stupid to realize the point and find some other “hack” around it.