Yahoo wishes you to forget about passwords!

And all the readers have definitely read it right. That is exactly what Yahoo wants for you to do. Don’t remember the passwords because all you will be doing is making “123456” or “your-name-123” as your passwords. What’s the point of making such passwords when they can easily be interpreted and/or hacked in order to access your emails or social network accounts? Usually, people have a habit of creating one-for-all type of password. So if that password is accessible by the hacker, they can easily access the victim’s online presence and relative data. We all are very well aware of what can happen next, just for you to have a better picture, let me remind you of identity theft, forgery, online theft, hacking, sending Trojans and etc. to name a few as severe consequences.

However, Yahoo has taken a major step forward by taking data encryption, hacking and security issues of the users into consideration. According to the latest Yahoo, news, the company recently flaunted its password-free on-demand passwords and the encrypted advancements in email. This is another way of trying to market Yahoo mail more than its competitors.

The on-demand passwords are no longer usable once you have logged into your Yahoo account. Therefore, they are one-time usable and accessible only to you. Since they keep on changing at regular and recent intervals, they are unable to be guessed or interpreted by the hacker. This sounds cool and totally fine, but it has some concerns.

These passwords are generated as a token to you by Yahoo. They are random and can be sent to you over your phone. This makes it a little less secure because what if you lose your phone? And just in case you have the message notifications showing up on your lock screen then the hacker will not be needing your password pattern to unlock your phone and will get access to your emails anyways.

With a little advancement, Yahoo can make it the next it-thing in the market. For example, they can follow the two-factor authentication where the user may have their own passwords as the first step to access emails and at the second step they are asked to enter the token generated by Yahoo and sent to them on their phones / other email accounts to verify if it is them or not.

Yahoo news tells CNET that: “this is the first step to eliminating passwords,” That clearly signifies we shall expect more from the company in this regard.