Apple Joins FIDO Alliance

Fast Identity Online Alliance

[engine]

Apple has joined Fast Identity Online Alliance (FIDO), the open industry association with the aim strengthening authentication without using passwords.
[fidoalliance.org...]

FIDO members also include Amazon, Facebook, Google, Mastercard, Microsoft, PayPal, Visa, and many other businesses.

Clearly, with Apple joining there will be more support for password-free authentication from the company.

[thenextweb.com...]

[lammert]

The FIDO is a nice initiative, but too little too late IMO, and totally tech-focussed.

I remember the days I only had to remember "qwer1234" to access all digitally secure parts of my life. Passwords are already getting extinct in my daily life, but not because of the FIDO.

Now I have an app on my phone which scans QR codes for government sites, a smartcard with passcode for more secure government sites, one bank using their own app for authentication, another bank using SMS codes, a code generator card for my AWS console, Google Authenticator for some sites, several stored PKI certificates with passcodes for other sites and I am sure I forgot at least half a dozen other non-password authentication systems I use nowadays.