https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/u-s-mobile-giants-want-to-be-your-online-identity/
The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. Here’s a look at what’s coming, and the potential security and privacy trade-offs of trusting the carriers to handle online authentication on your behalf.
Considering these firms have not had such a great track record in safeguarding customer information and accounts…this probably is not the best idea.
I think this article made a major point about customer adoption being based on the trust of their mobil provider being dismal. however a quick search found a computerworld.com article stating that a survey in 2015 that 72% of respondents rate their carrier as trustworthy, while 13% rate their carrier as untrustworthy and 15% say they have no opinion. I didn’t expect that. I guess I am more of a 13% “untrustworthy” character.
I don’t know how to feel about project verify. I think it sounds like a good idea with the best intentions but as I already reviewed I hold untrustworthy opinion of mobil carriers. To me they are akin to cable/internet providers. They seem to be out for something else, it is a miss direction.
When something is free… then you are the thing that is being sold. For some reason project verify seems like an answer to some password issues amongst our newly emerging techno society but how secure are the mobile companies anyway? How soon is it till we hear that one of their servers was hacked because the password was admin/admin? Then how secure would project verify be?
Hi Anthony
This article introduces about the software which is used to secure different passwords on the phone. Every social media or accounts could have different passwords. Users can just mange their passwords on one application, and they do not need to enter password when they logon their accounts. It is easir for users to secure their passwords by not typing anything.