02-09-2017 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com

The password needs to die and better UX will kill it

For a vestige of the past, the password has managed to hold on and remain alive — even though some of the top people in computing said that it had already died over a decade ago. In one of his more famous predictions, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that passwords were on the way out already in 2004. Problem is that Gates, for all his wisdom, didn’t tell us what to use to replace passwords. “There is no doubt that over time, people are going to rely less and less on password
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