Complementary Comment on Passwordless

Today’s topic is this article — “What is PasswordLess?” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-passwordless-sayed-mayana/

Let me complement the author’s discussion with my views on the security effects of removing the password (*1) and bringing in biometrics (*2).

*1 Remove the password altogether and we would see the identity security brought down: Removal of the password would increase the identity security where (only where) the attack surface of a password is larger than the defense surface of the password.

The values of democracy would also be eroded. Should you be interested to know more about this observation, you could refer to “How to not see our weak digital identity further weakened” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-see-our-weak-digital-identity-further-weakened-hitoshi-kokumai/

*2 Two minutes spent on this short video will convince you, immediately and completely, that biometrics used with a default/fallback password/pincode destroys the security that the password/pincode has somehow provided so far — “Biometrics in Cyber Space — ‘below-one’ factor authentication” https://youtu.be/wuhB5vxKYlg

Counterarguments from the people who disagree with me will be very much welcomed.

• Thanks to Sayed Mayana for bringing me to this educative article.