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Title: Medium stays firmly anti-password with radical e-mail-based logins Post by: HCK on July 01, 2015, 03:00:11 am Medium stays firmly anti-password with radical e-mail-based logins
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Medium is doing its best to stay password-free by letting users log in with a secure email link.</p><p> The blogging platform had previously required a Facebook or Twitter account to sign in, but realized (https://medium.com/the-story/signing-in-to-medium-by-email-aacc21134fcd) that not everyone uses those networks or wants to tie their social network account to a new service they’re just trying out. As an alternative, users can get a sign-in link by email that works only once and expires after 15 minutes.</p><p> “Passwords are neither secure nor simple,” Medium wrote in a blog post (https://medium.com/the-story/signing-in-to-medium-by-email-aacc21134fcd). “They’re hard to remember or easy to guess, everyone re-uses them (even though they know they shouldn’t), and they’re a pain to type on mobile. They don’t even keep you that safe.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2942268/medium-stays-firmly-anti-password-with-radical-e-mail-based-logins.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Medium stays firmly anti-password with radical e-mail-based logins (http://www.macworld.com/article/2942268/medium-stays-firmly-anti-password-with-radical-e-mail-based-logins.html#tk.rss_all) |