How Apple and Google will kill the password

Re:How Apple and Google will kill the password by bpeters on Sunday January 30, 2011 @01:26PM (#2158679)

Our phones would become our keys and passwords, and I am assuming they would be the devices that read our biometric ID and then allow access to other devices and services.

Only problem, and one preventing this becoming a real solution is the fact that people lose and forget their phones. If I can't have access to my daily services and devices without my phone then I am stuck in a worse position than I was before passwords.

The solution to access and protection shouldn't come from a change in the key, but a change in the lock.

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Re:How Apple and Google will kill the password by ThomPete on Sunday January 30, 2011 @02:38PM (#2158910)

Your phone is the one accessory you are most likely to be aware of.

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Re:How Apple and Google will kill the password by spooneybarger on Sunday January 30, 2011 @02:49PM (#2158939)

I know many people who go through 2-4 phones a year. They always lose it at least once a year. Sometimes as often as every 3-4 months.

On the same kind of note... the keys to my apartment are the most important thing I need to grab before I leave. Yet, once every 6 weeks I leave w/o them. Any system has to recongize that the keys will be lost and make them fairly easy to replace.

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