Google Want To Kill Password
Excerpted from The Verge, Wednesday, December 23, 2015, the test was discovered by the owner of Android named Rohit Paul, who uploaded the system test platform Reddit forum.
Paul admitted that he received an invitation from Google to try and he captures the login screen without a password.
Google does reveal just invite some specific user groups to try out the system.
"We have invited a small group of users to help test new ways to get into your Google account without requiring a password," said a Google spokesman.
In this system without a password, allowing users to give Google permission to send the authorization directly to the user's mobile phone.
"If you select yes on your mobile phone, the computer goes into your Google account without a password," said Paul in his writings on Reddit.
Google said the new scheme to be tested can be a tool to fight hackers which have been dependent on passwords to carry out their actions. For example in a phishing attack.
This test mentioned incorporating other Google innovations aimed at improving security. Google for one of the giant technology company that has a two-factor authentication service that is the most powerful.
This authentication can be seen when users receive a verification code via text messages on their mobile devices.
In addition, Google also has Authenticator application, which generates a unique ode to the user's mobile device to confirm your identity when you go to Google and third party services on the computer.
While, in April, Google has released Chrome extensions Password Alert is designed to tell the user may have to enter their password to a website outside of Google.
In an effort to kill password, Google borrows technology Yahoo! 'Account Key'.
The technology allows connecting mobile device users with a Yahoo account. This technology will also notify users every time they tried to enter on other devices. This technology is replacing the password verification via SMS code.
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