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Improve Your Security with Passkeys

I’ve written three different books about passwords and password managers, and several others that address passwords in smaller ways. I’ve given many presentations about dealing with passwords, too. And they’ve all boiled down to this: passwords are a pain in the neck, but we’re stuck with them forever, so here are some ways you can make them less painful. I’ve spent more than 15 years rolling my eyes at claims in the media that this or that company’s plan to “kill” the password was finally going to put us out of our collective misery. I’ve insisted for a long time that, lousy as they are, passwords are so deeply baked into the infrastructure of modern digital life that it’s almost unthinkable that we’ll ever ...