I agree with Google's sentiment that passwords are a thing of
the pastAnna Scantlin - Contributing Editor When I say “thing of
the past” I don’t mean that the world is golden and nobody uses
them anymore because we all trust each other not to do anything
malicious should an unauthorized party get their hands on our
phone. I mean “thing of the past” as in they just don’t work
anymore; they’re too easily broken into and are extremely prone
to hackers even more now as time has allowed them to develop
better and stronger programs. If a virus becomes resistant to a
certain medicine, it’s because the virus has adapted to the
environment and has evolved for survivability. Hackers are very
much the same way – you don’t want them around, but without
changing the formula of the “medicine” (in this case, passwords)
there’s really not much you can do about them if they set their
sights on you. So what’s the solution? To change the very nature
of how passwords work; which is exactly what Google’s security
team is aiming t