Maybe Passwords are the Future

28 · Kevin Cox · April 7, 2022, 3:25 p.m.
Most security experts seem to agree that passwords are on the way out. There is good reason for this:Users pick awful passwords, making brute force attacks easy.Users reuse passwords, making credential stuffing effective.Users can’t remember good, unique passwords for more than a few sites.Passwords can easily be phished.Passwords are exposed to the server. This makes reuse worse and offline phishing possible.A wide variety of new approaches are vying for popularity. WebAuthn removes passwords a...