Google tests one-touch phone logins to replace passwords
Passwords are a universally hated method of authentication, but they're ubiquitous and pretty secure if used correctly. There's a problem with that last bit, though. A substantial number of users use, shall we say, suboptimal passwords, and very often reuse them across multiple services. The underlying problem is that a good password is either complex, long, or both. Conjuring one up and typing it in every time is an annoyance, to say the least. Google wants to put an end to that.
The search giant has begun a limited test of a security feature that allows user to login simply by clicking "yes" on a notification sent to his phone. If this rings a little familiar, it's because it's akin to what Yahoo is doing with its Account Key service. This is a sort of one-factor authentication method, ...