Google's Open YOLO Project Will Remove the Need For Passwords On Android (thenextweb.com)

An anonymous reader writes via a report on The Next Web: Google is partnering with password management service Dashlane to build what they're calling Open YOLO (You Only Login Once), a new API that will allow Android apps to securely access your login credentials to sign you in without any fuss. The project is open source, which means anyone can scrutinize the code used to build it and find bugs, or even contribute and improve the API. That also means that it'll be available for other password management services to implement in their tools. Dashlane will be the first to integrate it; the company noted in a blog post that other services are also collaborating on this project and will likely to follow soon. It also hopes that Open YOLO will eventually launch on other operating systems as well.

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Because I WANT to share the same password with all

[gurps_npc]

You don't use the same password for your email as you use for your bank account because you want to make sure that when one is compromised, the other is not.

Using a single login is just a slightly easier version of using the same password for all your accounts.

It is JUST as stupid as using the same password for your every account.

The only difference is that the people with your password are promising not to steal money from you outright.

They don't promise to respect your privacy in any way, because they are planning on abusing the crap out of it.

Trusting someone that's outright plan is to abuse your trust is not a smart thing to do.

Re:Because I WANT to share the same password with

[NotInHere]

Yeah I'll probably never use that app, but I find the idea of an open API super useful, because I'm sure someone will implement an open source app that I can trust, and thanks to the API, it will be supported everywhere.