Your password will be deleted, but here’s the problem—10 problems, to be exact.
, warning its billion users that “bad actors know it, which is why they’re desperately accelerating password-related attacks while they still can.” And while the company “blocks 7,000 attacks on passwords per second… almost double from a year ago,” that’s not nearly enough. “Our ultimate goal.” it says, “is to remove passwords completely,”
But to go from where are today to ubiquitous deployment — enabling Microsoft and others to delete billions of basic, reused, crackable passwords — needs work. NCSC outlines ten critical issues holding back such mass adoption. Migration issues: Passkeys are ‘long life’ because users can’t forget them or create one that is weak, so if they’re done well there should be no need to reset or update them. As a result, there’s an increased likelihood that at some point a user will want to move their passkeys to the Credential Manager of a different vendor or platform. This is currently challenging to do.
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