How many passwords do you have? How secure are they? Are they all unique, or do you re-use just one, or a small number?
For these & other reasons, passwords have been widely criticised for some time. Their replacement has been widely discussed, & now, at last, Yahoo has done something about it.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/15/yahoo-offers-password-free-login-for-email/?mod=ST1 / Yahoo Inc. YHOO new pitch email users your password Yahoo Mail sign in inbox user name smartphone blog post Yahoo new password-free login authenticate device main smartphone improve security eliminate biggest hassles facing Web users daily basis introduced new version email service Web mobile phones featuring more robust tool searching messages contacts Yahoo Mail users access messages AOL, Hotmail Microsoft Outlook accounts Email Yahoo’s most popular products Chief Executive Marissa Mayer Internet portal smartphones Yahoo’s daily email usage mobile devices Jeffrey Bonforte senior vice president communications Yahoo poured resources into communications group headed Mr. Bonforte building new technology improve email password-free login feature improved search feature computing power users sign Yahoo account key receive push notification smartphone log in email account from desktop mobile notification location computer requesting access account computer password-free access account in perpetuity until Yahoo detects unusual behavior indicate different user two-factor authentication competitors Google Inc. sends code user’s mobile phones enter Web browser first ones roll out account key refreshing apps Google Gmail Web mail services Google Yahoo email users comScore Google Yahoo U.S. users Yahoo’s new mail apps email search technology developed Xobni Corp Yahoo acquisition users two letters search box new Yahoo Mail service uses algorithms person message find /
