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Your password is terrible and everyone wants to fix that

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Your password is terrible and everyone wants to fix that
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Nate Lanxon | Bloomberg
Headlines about mass data breaches have become ominously routine, and yet password convenience still trumps security for most people. That’s why, year after year, the world’s most popular log-on remains “123456,” a password so obvious it accounted for 17 per cent of the 10 million compromised passwords analysed by Keeper Security, which sells a log-in management service.
 
The answer, of course, is to get rid of passwords altogether. Biometric technology—especially fingerprint scanners—have been steadily replacing the need to type in a password, which can easily be guessed by hackers wielding smart algorithms. Now, with the world increasingly embracing voice-activated