Traditional passwords to soon become obsolete
Posted on: 26/May/2016 6:24:30 PM
Google’s Project Abacus is all set to kill passwords. The new technology was unveiled at the recent I/O conference. It will be tested by leading financial companies during trials starting in June. The system will work on smartphones and works by checking critical physical features and attributes.
This basically means that instead of asking for traditional passwords, the phone will scan the user’s face, voice etc. This information is then fed into the API, which will generate a trust score.
A senior Google executive said, The password-killing technology should be available to every Android developer by the end of 2016, if all goes well.
A recent report says, Trust API was revealed by Daniel Kaufman, the head of Google’s research unit ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects). It stems from the ideas of Project Abacus, a plan which aimed to free users of the many passwords and PINs they must remember on a daily basis. The Google executive reportedly said, We have a phone, and these phones have all these sensors in them. Why couldn’t it just know who I was, so I don`t need a password? I should just be able to work.
