The Internet of Things Is the Password Killer We've Been Waiting For

jfruh writes: You can't enter a password into an Apple Watch; the software doesn't allow it, and the UI would make doing so difficult even if it did. As we enter the brave new world of wearable and embeddable devices and omnipresent 'headless' computers, we may be seeing the end of the password as we know it. What will replace it? Well, as anyone who's ever unlocked car door just by reaching for its handle with a key in their pocket knows, the answer may be the embeddable devices themselves.

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Re:I'm working on apps without passwords

[GoodNewsJimDotCom]

Look if your phone gets malware or MITM and skims the logon normally, you're boned. You're boned in many ways since if you have malware you probably have a keystroke logger too. Yet this passwordless style won't ever let them know how to log onto your account. This is no different since your login/password phase of authentication is the same. In fact with the server giving you a quite long randomized password its better than someone's recycled password they use on every site.

If you don't enter an email and verify it, yes, you lose everything! This is why you enter your email and verify it, gain some virtual currency for completing the task. The thing is, it won't prompt you for this for about 10-30 minutes in since you don't have anything worth saving anyway, and no one wants detracted from seeing if the game is cool or not.