The technology company is testing a tool that would request authorization through your smartphone to access their accounts.
Google is testing a method for the user to access their accounts without a password, according to The Verge. With this new form would need only a smartphone.
“We’ve invited a small group of users to help us test a new way to access their accounts from Google, without the need for a password” He said a Google spokesman told The Verge. “Pizza, password, 123456 … Your days are numbered.” In addition to free themselves from the simple passwords, Google said that this new functionality would avoid attacks by hackers.
The tool would work with the system screen lock. After authorizing the connection of the device with the account, the user enters a computer, for example, Gmail, enter your email and instantly reach a notification that asks if you are trying to access the account. To approve access to that account should unlock the screen, access the notification and touch “Yes”.
Although this technology could become widely used, Google just provide the ability to access account the traditional way.
The initiative was later revealed that a Reddit user share in the forum, with screenshots, who was invited by the Mountain View giant to test the new tool.
Google already has several mechanisms for data protection as one of the services more robust authentication of double factor, the Authenticator application (which generates a unique access code through the device), plus Password Alert the Chrome extension, which prompts the user each time you enter your Google password on a site of unknown origin.
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