The campaign to eliminate passwords has been ongoing, and growing, for close to a decade. The goal of FIDO, a nonprofit created in 2012, is to supplant passwords with what it calls, an open, scalable, interoperable set of mechanisms, for secure authentication. Yet, passwords are such an embedded part of authentication systems most popular websites still use them that, as McDowell said, it will take considerable time for them to disappear. Some in the security community say we should be careful what we wish for.”]
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