Google test login without password for mail – HOWEVER

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For Writing / However December 24, 2015 – 13: 45h

Yahoo announced in October to passwords on your email service, and it seems that Google has now decided to join the trend.

This measure consists of configure the smartphone so that it is linked to the Google account so that each time you log in from another device, instead of entering a password is necessary to validate the action from your mobile phone. Photo: TICbeat

Mexico City, November 24 (HOWEVER / TICbeat) .- The massive theft of passwords or individual shows, day after day, that neither the name nor our pets more convoluted alphanumeric combinations can protect full of cunning hackers and cybercriminals.

The technological seek alternatives. Yahoo already announced in October to passwords on your email service, and it seems that Google has now decided to join the trend.

According to the web Android Police The Internet giant is testing a handful of users with a new authentication system, quite similar, so little is known about him, which Yahoo wants to use.

is to set the smartphone so that it is linked to your Google account so that each time you log in from another device, instead of entering a password is necessary to validate the action from your mobile phone.

This does not exclude anyone who wishes to continue using his password, but once this mechanism is most likely is that Google no longer ask enabled.

The system remembers, too, some applications mobile banking, which are already configured so that each time we are going to make some kind of online transaction we must validate our smartphone.

The news has come from the screenshots shared by Rohit Paul, one of the users who are part of the experiment, and Google he has completed confirming later with the following message: “We’ve invited a small group of people (users of both Android and iOS) to help us to try a new way to log into their Google accounts, no password needed. ‘Pizza’, ‘password’ and ’123456′: Your days are numbered “

The system announced in October that Yahoo is very similar. Once the user accesses the service of mail, enter your name User and click on continue and then, instead of requesting your password, Yahoo Mail sends an alert to smartphone associated with the account. Upon acceptance of the application in mobile, it will automatically access the inbox.

Dylan Casey, vice president of product of the firm, said then that the passwords were dead.

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