{"id":1994,"date":"2013-05-12T23:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T05:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2013-05-12T23:35:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T05:35:09","slug":"paypal-exec-aims-to-obliterate-passwords-from-the-face-of-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/paypal-exec-aims-to-obliterate-passwords-from-the-face-of-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal exec aims to \u201cobliterate passwords from the face of the planet\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal&#8217;s top security official is on a quest to kill passwords.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our intention is to really obliterate, within a certain number of years, both passwords and PINs and see the whole Internet\u2014including internally in enterprises\u2014obliterate user IDs and passwords and PINs from the face of the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Michael Barrett, chief information security officer at PayPal, told the network industry today at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. Barrett&#8217;s second job is as president of the FIDO Alliance, a recently unveiled consortium trying to create an open standard that could replace passwords. Google, Lenovo, and other companies have representatives on FIDO&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>FIDO, which stands for Fast Identity Online, would work by requiring users to authenticate to their smartphone or other personal device, which then authenticates to a website (such as PayPal) using FIDO&#8217;s protocols.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/05\/paypal-exec-aims-to-obliterate-passwords-from-the-face-of-the-planet\/\" title=\"PayPal exec aims to \u201cobliterate passwords from the face of the planet\"\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal&#8217;s top security official is on a quest to kill passwords. &#8220;Our intention is to really obliterate, within a certain number of years, both passwords and PINs and see the whole Internet\u2014including internally in enterprises\u2014obliterate user IDs and passwords and PINs from the face of the planet.&#8221; That&#8217;s what Michael Barrett, chief information security officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,44,6],"tags":[592,595,134,1354],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-space","category-miscellaneous","category-news","tag-fast-identity-online","tag-fidos-protocol","tag-identity-and-access-management","tag-password-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-wa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}