The Death of the Password

Monday, 14 July 2014 | by Pat's Picks

The Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Mims gives out his Twitter password today - to make the point that the password is finally on the way out as our means of protecting our online accounts. Two-factor authentication is the way of the future. It’s already the way we use ATMS, with one factor being your PIN, the other being your debit card. To make this work for online accounts, the second factor would be your smartphone. You get a text message with a secure PIN that you use to login to your account.

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal