Google Declares War on the Password

[Phillip McCleod]

4. dell vostros have fingerprint authentication

just awesome.

gotta say i'll be glad to see the password go but it won't be that easy. there will be a place for passwords as long as hackers (in the original sense of the word not the pejorative) use keyboards and command lines. it takes like two seconds to type it in doing ssh or sudo or whatnot.

my prediction is innovation in cryptography of the sort that can defy quantum computers. so nothing based on factoring. more likely combinations of crypto algorithms like we already see.