The experience we know as password hell could be radically changed for the better within the next year and a half to three years.

truggling to come up with long strings of complex capital and lower case letters, numbers and symbols? That’s so yesterday.

That’s the hope, anyway.

In a fascinating interview with Google product manager Mark Risher in The Verge this week, he laid out his vision for why those passwords we’ve been told to create don’t actually help.

They have “no bearing on phishing, no bearing on password breaches, no bearing on password reuse,” he said. “We think that it’s much more important to reduce the total number of passwords out there.”

In other words, all that time you’ve been forced to spend trying to create tougher to crack passwords is a waste. At least that’s the way he appears to see it.

I think all Talking Tech readers would agree that anything we could do to eliminate the constant typing of passwords during our daily hours would be most welcome.

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