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The age of automated authentication through biometric scanning is almost here. Yet even in this time of Apple’s Face ID, Windows 10’s Hello, and the up-and-coming FIDO2 specification, passwords are ...

I stirred up a bit of a hornet’s nest this week when I suggested that people should switch from Google Authenticator to another two-factor authentication app on Android. I recommended Authy, but ...

I've used Google Authenticator for years. It's not a default Android app, but I've used it for so many years at this point that it does just transfer from phone to phone, so it feels very much default ...