that the future s brighter for our lives online. joe tidy, bbc news. a lot of information in nappies. we re joined now by technology expert tom cheesewright. do you want to break it down for us? if someone has watched nappies, tell me again what a passkey is.- me again what a passkey is. imagine if ou set me again what a passkey is. imagine if you set no me again what a passkey is. imagine if you set up an me again what a passkey is. imagine if you set up an account me again what a passkey is. imagine if you set up an account with - me again what a passkey is. imagine if you set up an account with a - if you set up an account with a website it creates a unique lock that can be only unlocked by a long number, 10,000 character long number, 10,000 character long number, the unique answer to a mathematical problem. that is stored on your device and can only be unlocked by your face, on your device and can only be unlocked by yourface, fingerprint or some other way the device knows it
my password manager needs an authentication code. it s no surprise that the cybersecurity world has largely failed to get the general public to jump through the hoops needed to make passwords safe. so, now, whether we like it or not, the future of logging in online is through our phones with thumbprints, pin codes and, increasingly, facial id. no system will ever fully be hacker proof, but passkeys do mean that the future s brighter for our lives online. joe tidy, bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather with sarah. hello. we ve got a window of slightly less cold weather for the next couple of days. we didn t see such widespread ice and frost around this morning certainly compared to earlier in the week. so still quite chilly and cloudy for many of us, but temperatures not as low as they have been. so high pressure holding onto our weather. the winds rotating, coming in off the atlantic and the north sea, so bringing quite a lot of moisture and that s bringing that blanket o
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snow showers and possible disruption for some of us. we are updated, we know, we are warned, it is good. it can feel you spend a lot of your time online. and it can feel you are constantly filling in passwords and then you forget them and you think of new ones. and then you forget them again because you are told not to store them in certain places so you end up forgetting. do you do that? a lot of people have one password. do not do that. that is a bad thing. major tech and internet firms have started turning to passkeys a no password solution. which uses biometrics or device pins to protect our accounts online. that needs some explaining. our cyber correspondent, joe tidy, can tell us more. pass key. passkey. passkeys. you may not yet have heard of them, but passkeys are the future of how
we stay safe online. dozens of internet businesses, large and small, are hoping this new bit of tech will finally kill off the password. so what are passkeys and why are they a step up from what we ve been doing all these years? well, if you think about an online service as a door, you get in by putting in your password or a passcode. but this is obviously insecure as all a fraudster needs is the code or password and they re in. a passkey acts a little bit like a key card. it checks who i am as well as if i have the right code. but with passkeys, it s all done on a device and with clever encryption. setting up a passkey takes a few minutes. the online service asks you to verify your identity using your device. it s not hard, but it is more of a hassle than setting up a username and password like we ve always done. so why is this huge shift taking place and is it worth it? well, it s because passwords are, and always have been, a terrible way to keep us safe.