Google has marked World Password Day by declaring "passwords are the single biggest threat to your online security," and announcing plans to automatically add multi-step authentication to its users' accounts.
A mere eight years after Intel began promoting World Password Day as a way to raise awareness about the importance of strong passwords, Google is ready to wipe them from memory.
At the 2004 RSA Conference, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates predicted passwords would become less important in the years ahead. The Windows biz has pushed to make that happen by supporting FIDO2 security keys for authentication and switching to token-based authentication to approve git operations google verification login
