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But do you need passwords? The way things are setup now you do, the password is the recovery mechanism. If the recovery mechanism was instead something like "ph
by grotorea 3y ago
But do you need passwords? The way things are setup now you do, the password is the recovery mechanism. If the recovery mechanism was instead something like "photo of face next to government ID" then Google could stop using passwords next week.
> But they can never serve as the primary authentication mechanism - that will still have to be a traditional authentication mechanism.
Why not?
- ghaff 3y ago> If the recovery mechanism was instead something like "photo of face next to government ID" then Google could stop using passwords next week. Think about the failure mechanisms. What government ID? Why might the face change? Etc. Even if these sound like outliers, at scale essentially anything will happen.