Password goodbye, is the era of fingerprints: Apple also wants to introduce them on the Mac – The Messenger

A world without a password is not only possible but also desirable: virtually every site, service, app requires one to access and laziness – sometimes stupidity – human means that the keyword set is also the element of weakness more exploited by cyber criminals to steal personal information and money. In a future where biometrics seems to be the most promising candidate to replace codes and Apple is also pin of the game, focusing on fingerprints. Been around for years, it is only with the arrival of the Touch ID on the iPhone 5s in 2013 that the fingerprint readers began to become a “must” for high-end smartphones. Serve to unlock the phones without having to remember a numeric code, but also to download applications and make micropayments.

According to the latest rumors, relaunched in the next conference for developers of Apple bitten, Apple would be thinking of eliminating passwords even on his Mac. not introducing a fingerprint reader on the new generation of pC (option not to be excluded for the future), but integrating into the new operating system a facility to match the iPhone via bluetooth and exploit its Touch ID to recognize the ‘user. Before long no longer serve even the double authentication systems – for years used by banks and adopted increasingly also from online services – and even the applications that make up the key rings of all passwords (which are not immune to hackers) to gain access the dozens of online platforms where we checked in. But beyond futuristic solutions that they think they can exploit even the thought or the tattoos, biometric systems for access to information technology tools if they begin to see more and more.

With Windows 10 Microsoft introduced Hello: on pC and next-generation Surface, with ad hoc readers, the system allows to recognize the user by his fingerprints, but not only. Hello Windows also allows face recognition and iris with devices that have cameras that support these options. The face is already instrument of recognition for her cell phone payments: one of the last experiments is the PaySelfie MasterCard, already tested for a year in the US and the Netherlands. A “selfie” to pay – photos and videos – is also the idea of ​​an e-commerce giant Amazon, which would deposit a special patent. The app Hands Free Google to pay without pulling out his wallet or phone uses voice recognition, other viable option although not yet finalized.