Google enables passkeys, FIDO Alliance-developed cryptographic keys that require a preauthenticated device, on all accounts, to eventually replace passwords
you can now switch to passkey-only Adam Rowe / Tech.co : Your Google Account Doesn't Need a Password Anymore Luke Mandato / MobileSyrup : Dashlane is exploring password-free logins with device authentication Jeff Burt / The Register : Go ahead, forget that password. Use a passkey instead, says Google Paul E King / Pocketables : Google rolling out Passkey support enabling a passwordless dystopia in which losing your phone means resetting all your passwords (or not) Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Google Announces Support for Account Passkeys Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo : Google Rolls Out Passkeys to (Eventually) Kill Passwords Paul Sawers / TechCrunch : Google now lets you access your account with passkeys rather than passwords LinkedIn: Sean Frazier : One more domino to fall. the latest chapter in the “killing the password” saga. — #killthepassword — https://blog.google/... Mark Wenberg : A little less than a year ago I posted here about Apple's official announcement that they would be supporting Passkeys beginning with iOS 16, macOS Ventura, etc. … Steve Turner : This is so exciting, one of the biggest consumer services (Google) has adopted cross platform passkeys. … Mastodon: Jared Newman / @Newmy@writing.exchange : Like, I'm a nerd, I get it, the idea is you use your computer or whatever to deauthorize the lost phone and set up a new one. But, A) Some people's only device is a phone B) It's not impossible for all your devices to get lost/stolen at once C) … Tweets: Christiaan Brand / @christiaanbrand : After about a decade's work on this problem, I'm so happy bring this to our billions of users today. https://blog.google/... Passwords are dead. May we never have to see them, remember them, or type them. Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai : We've started rolling out support for passkeys that let users sign in to our products with a fingerprint, a face scan or a screen lock PIN. Starting today, this will be available as an option for Google Account users. https://blog.google/... Ricky Mondello / @rmondello : Huge day for passkeys! Starting today, you can set up a passkey for your Google account. At this stage of the industry-wide transition, setting up a passkey doesn't invalidate your password, so it's 100% safe to set up. https://blog.google/... Kent Walker / @kent_walker : We're celebrating #WorldPasswordDay by enabling *passkey* sign-in on our platforms. Now you can sign in to your Google Account across your devices—no password required. https://blog.google/... https://twitter.com/... Dieter Bohn / @backlon : Typing in text is hard no matter what the field is. I can't tweet without typos (had to redo this one!) and even with a password manager passwords are a pain. So let's get rid of passwords. https://blog.google/... https://twitter.com/... Raj Sarkar / @rajsarkar : As usual Google hijacking world password day - typical outbound fury from Google announcing it a day early speculating other news 👏 https://twitter.com/... Lily Hay Newman / @lilyhnewman : Today Google is launching passkeys for all personal accounts...you can try it out right now. There are some other companies that have done this, including PayPal, but for a lot of people this will be the first time they make a passkey https://www.wired.com/... Mark Risher / @mrisher : Big news today! You can now create & use passkeys on your @Google Account for passwordless sign in. It's a big step in a cross-industry effort that started 10+ years ago, bringing us towards a safer, more convenient, passwordless future #WorldPasswordDay https://security.googleblog.com/ ... Robert Stephens / @rstephens : Bigly news. All Mac and iOS devices fully support this. This will make your life 100x easier https://security.googleblog.com/ ...