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The death of the password
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The death of the password
Passwords were a 1960s solution still guarding 2020s money. This episode is about what replaces them.
- Phishing-resistant by design: how passkeys work
- Why account recovery is now the hard part
- The support ticket that convinced one bank to switch
Related: our episode on device binding and fraud signals.
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The death of the password
Passkeys are finally shipping in banking apps. A security lead on what broke in the password era, what passkeys fix, and the recovery problem nobody has solved.
The death of the password
Passwords were a 1960s solution still guarding 2020s money. This episode is about what replaces them.
- Phishing-resistant by design: how passkeys work
- Why account recovery is now the hard part
- The support ticket that convinced one bank to switch
Related: our episode on device binding and fraud signals.
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