Login by Password/Pincode Removed from Their Smartphones?

Today’s first topic is this report — “FIDO Alliance says it has finally killed the password” https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/21/fido_password_killer/

I am wondering if they have completely removed the password/pincode from the smartphones deployed in their scheme.

(1) In case of NO, say, their scheme is still dependent on the password/pincode for protection of the smartphones, it would be simply wrong to claim that they have killed or are killing the password.

(2) In case of YES, say, the scheme would indeed be ‘passwordless’ or ‘zero-password’, then this comic published 17 years would be found relevant — “Entangled thinking makes everything more Entangled”

With the password, that is, their secret credential, removed from their identity assurance altogether, they believe they would enjoy a safer identity assurance because their identity can be authenticated while they are asleep or otherwise unconscious. Shall we offer them the congratulations for their sophisticated cyber safety?

Tyrants would be able to get them authenticated when they are not agreeable to it. Shall we offer them the congratulations for their sophisticatedly defended civil rights?

Ref: “Clever Solutions to Silly Passwords? — Do What You CAN NOT Do or What You MUST NOT Do”

Incidentally, there could possibly be a third scenario.

(3) Login by a pincode can stay while the password login has to be removed, because the pincode, which is a weak form of numbers-only password by our criteria, is not the password for them. A paper knife should not be viewed as belonging to the knife family by their criteria, presumably because it is too powerless to be called a knife. Should it be the case by any chance, it would be really a pleasurable conception indeed!

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