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Google Aims to Kill Passwords with Project Abacus
Google Aims to Kill Passwords with Project Abacus
by Tom Spring Google wants to kill passwords. And the weapon it wants to use is called Project Abacus, which Google said will become available on Android devices by the end of 2016. The way Project Abacus works is that instead of relying on passwords or two-factor authentication to open your Android phone, your device will instead authenticate you based on how you used your device.
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Interesting, as long as it doesn't lock up the legitime user...




Which will involve yet another OS-level always-on process running sensors continually to hoover up even more data about me.
yup... I still say authentication by urination would be the best solution.
Yeah, I'm just not comfortable with Google grabbing even more data. Not that I think they're doing anything implicitly bad, but I'd rather not give them the option to even start.
Seems awfully idealistic to me. I wonder how long it will take to establish a good baseline. What if I reformat my phone or buy a new phone. What if I have no connection. I'd imagine some of the times that you would NEED your phone the most would be when you're not doing what you normally do. I'd imagine they'll still let you just enter a password as a fail-safe, but then what is the point? You still have the vulnerability of a password with the additional overhead and tracking of constant monitoring. I hope it works out though because Id really like to see passwords become a thing of the past.
Yup I was thinking pretty much the same thing. What happens when you turn off your phone for a flight. 5 hours later, you're in a completely new country (maybe even continent). How would it know it wasn't stolen? So the passcode/password failsafe needs to be in there. And like you said, there's no point if their idea if it's needed. Oh well, at least it's not for the foreseeable future.