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Yahoo wants you to forget your password, announces 'on-demand' login service

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="intro">Yahoo's new "on-demand" system will tie your phone number with your Yahoo account, sending you a one-time verification key to your iPhone (http://www.imore.com/iphone) every time you want to login.</p> <!--break--> <p>Yahoo (http://www.imore.com/tag/yahoo) has announced its take on password security with a service that removes the password altogether. With its on-demand service, the software giant will deliver a one-time key every time a user needs to log in to their account, with a "send my password" button displayed instead of the traditional password text box.</p> <p>Yahoo has detailed instructions on how you can enable the service, which is now available to customers in the U.S.:</p>

<p>1) Sign in to your Yahoo.com account.</p> <p>2) Click on your name at the top right corner to go to your account information page.</p> <p>3) Select "Security" in the left bar.</p> <p>4) Click on the slider for "On-demand passwords" to opt-in.</p> <p>5) Enter your phone number and Yahoo will send you a verification code.</p> <p>6) Enter the code and voila!</p>

<p>Yahoo isn't the only tech company looking to simplify the account sign-in process, with Twitter also launching a Digits service (http://www.imore.com/twitter-hopes-replace-usernames-and-passwords-digits) that allows users to log in to their accounts via a unique code sent to the phone number associated with their accounts.</p> <p>Along with on-demand passwords, Yahoo showcased an end-to-end encryption (http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-security-end-to-end-encryption) plugin for Yahoo Mail developed in collaboration with Google:</p> <div class="video"><div class="video_iframe"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/F54J8GtAYHE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;controls=2&amp;autohide=1&amp;showinfo=0" width="627" height="353" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-f54j8gtayhe" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div></div> <!--/video--> <p>Yahoo's method is geared at being more user-friendly, and while the encryption service is not yet available to users, the company plans to launch it sometime before the end of the year.</p> <p>Source: Yahoo (http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708272894/a-new-simple-way-to-log-in?soc_src=mail&amp;soc_trk=ma)</p> </div></div></div><img width='1' height='1' src='(http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/446cc12f/sc/4/mf.gif)' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

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