Kill the password? Yahoo tries it and it works

Macworld
Oct 16, 2015, 2:03 pm1.2k ptsHot
Yahoo is trying something new: telling its users to bypass a password entirely in favor of a smartphone app through which a user grants access when a login is attempted. This seems like, in the words of one Twitter wit, two-factor authentication (2FA) with one factor. Is Yahoo’s Account Key offering a strange…

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