Unless you’ve got an absolutely stellar long-term memory you’re likely one of the millions of people around the world who rely on some type of password reminder or organizer app to be able to remember passwords from time to time. It’s natural that the ones you use regularly are fairly committed to memory, but we all have ones that don’t need to be entered very often. These are the ones where we may well be drawing a blank when it comes time to use them, and where a password reminder app comes in especially handy. But then there’s the ongoing fact that even the most unique password isn’t going to be 100% failsafe, and being ‘hacked’ does happen to a lot of people. Add to that the fact in today’s increasingly digital world we have more and more passwords to keep track of than ever before and for some people passwords are going to be both untrusted and inconvenient. Here at 4GoodHosting, we can certainly relate as being the leading Canadian web hosting provider AND digital world enthusiasts that we are we can certainly relate to having the sheer volume of passwords adding up big time and being tough to keep track of all of them. However, it seems that passwords actually might be becoming a thing of the past, and web security experts are venturing their opinions that there may be a more effective – and less demanding – way to ensure that accesses to certain spots aren’t available to just anyone online. This is what we’re going to discuss in our entry for today – are character and numeric passwords soon to become obsolete, and is there something better and more user-friendly while still equally effective in the works? It seems that there is. Who’s the ‘FIDO Alliance’ Say the word Fido and most people will immediately think of a less-expensive cell phone provider option, but when it comes to web security development the FIDO Alliance is an acronym for Fast Identity Online Alliance. They’re an authentication standards group dedicated to replacing passwords with a different, faster, and more secure method for folks who want to log into...
