Microsoft is making Windows 10 passwordless - It’s part of a bigger push to get rid of passwords

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20690359/microsoft-windows-10-passwordless-password-option-update

Microsoft is planning to make Windows 10 PCs work without passwords. While the company has been working on removing passwords from Windows 10 and its Microsoft Accounts for a number of months now, the next major update to Windows 10 next year will go one step further. You’ll soon be able to enable a passwordless sign-in for Microsoft accounts on a Windows 10 device. This means PCs will use Windows Hello face authentication, fingerprints, or a PIN code. The password option will simply disappear from the login screen, if you decide to opt in to this new “make your device passwordless” feature.
So why does Microsoft want people to stop using passwords to log into Windows 10 PCs? It’s really simple: passwords suck. People love to reuse them across every website and on their personal devices, and although we have a number of two-factor authentication methods available, it’s still difficult to convince people to use them.

Microsoft argues that a PIN code is far more secure than a password, even if it seems more simple to use a four-digit code. This is thanks to unknown variables and the fact that the code is stored on a device and not shared online. Windows 10 stores your private key on a device with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which is a secure chip that keeps a PIN local to your device only. Servers can be compromised and passwords stolen, but a Windows Hello PIN wouldn’t be affected.
Microsoft has been slowly trying to convince Windows 10 users to opt into two-factor authentication processes like basic SMS, a separate Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, or even physical security keys with the FIDO2 standard. With the latest Windows 10 May 2019 Update, you can even set up and sign into a Windows 10 PC with just a phone number on a Microsoft Account.
Microsoft is now planning to allow people to remove the password option entirely from the Windows 10 login screen. This will also extend to business users through Azure Active Directory, allowing businesses to go fully passwordless with security keys, the authenticator app, or Windows Hello.
It’s all another step toward a future where hopefully we don’t have to worry about remembering complex passwords, having a password manager, or avoiding reusing passwords. If Microsoft, Apple, and Google have their way then we’ll be using our eyes, fingers, or physical keys that we posses to get into our accounts and devices instead of passwords.

 

[CrunkLord420]

I'm glad Windows is finally upgrading to bank-level security of 4-8 digit PINs.

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

Is there a way to completely neuter windows 10? Fuck microsoft.

 

[wylfım]

Is there a way to completely neuter windows 10? Fuck microsoft.

Nope, even on max privacy settings they phone home over 10k times a day.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Is there a way to completely neuter windows 10? Fuck microsoft.

The enterprise/LTSC builds are better, but apparently far from perfect:

Privacy Analysis of Windows 10 Enterprise at Telemetry Level 0

www.softscheck.com

 

[BroccoliBrain]

die microshit

Wait, what? I still have Windows 8.1 and never updated to Windows 10. And I never modified registry settings.
Though tbf my case is only an anecdote.

Yeah I just ignored it and I’m still on 8.1.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Passwords suck

Well Tom, it appears that you’re a CIA Nigger. Fuck you, I’m gonna use a Juggalo make up and fuck with Microsoft.

 

[MagneticTowels]

I play obscure ass video games nigga,

Those are a yoke you need to cut off

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Thank God it's only an option and not getting screamed down your throat. Still a dumb idea since face recognition bullshit works with printed photographs.

I like this much, much less than passwords.
Next it'll be a DNA identification system.

That would actually be less retarded than the facial recognition shit.

 

[UN 474]

Lol! Passwords aren't that much of an inconvenience. Those who complain about passwords are the ones who use the same password on every website or use easily guessed ones. Password managers aren't hard to use (basic password database backup practices are also pretty easy). If you don't wish to pay for one, use KeePass. People are literally fucking pathetic these days.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

Lol! Passwords aren't that much of an inconvenience. Those who complain about passwords are the ones who use the same password on every website or use easily guessed ones. Password managers aren't hard to use (basic password database backup practices are also pretty easy). If you don't wish to pay for one, use KeePass. People are literally fucking pathetic these days.

The people who bitch worst about passwords are those who never learned to touch-type. (Mavis Beacon died for your sins, you lazy fucks! At least for me, the password ends up becoming a muscle-memory thing; I don't even think about every single character as I type it. Especially for a password you use every day, like your damn user account.)

These people are the ones who choose the shortest passwords out of sheer laziness, and in turn end up re-using them for a bunch of sites. My observation has been that after the usual top-20 passwords and the typical 19xx PINs and such, most of the unoriginal passwords are sports teams, which can be guessed from a quick look at somebody's desk or wallpaper. If MS really wanted to make Windows marginally more secure, they'd enforce better password rules and block all this easily-guessed shit (or ask users to pick a passphrase instead of some arbitrary combination of letters and numbers).

Re-using short passwords for anything other than throwaway accounts is just asking to get fucked over.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

I won't be happy until my computer somehow verifies my dick to sign in, especially my work computer. Then women won't be able to use computers anymore, which is how it should be.

Won't they just shove their clitares into the webcam?

Well I guess my next "normie" computer will be one of those new Macbooks that went back to scissor switches.

Funnily enough Apple have actually got it right with Touch ID. Most of time you see a log in screen you can use Touch ID instead, it only occasionally asks for a password. Of course there's a significant and rising Apple Tax payment required compared to a cheap Windows machine.

 

[Marco Fucko]

Funnily enough Apple have actually got it right with Touch ID. Most of time you see a log in screen you can use Touch ID instead, it only occasionally asks for a password. Of course there's a significant and rising Apple Tax payment required compared to a cheap Windows machine.

If I weren't a computer guy I would dead ass be an Apple customer. MacOS is a way better user experience, imo.

 

[qu_rahn]

Password manager

i write all my passwords down on paper in invisible ink using a cipher i designed. Get secured faggots

 

[idosometimes]

PINs are only more secure because you have fewer chances at guessing them. If you miss the pin or picture password three times, you are forced to use the password unlock. My phone requires me to unlock with pin/passcode every so often even though my finger can unlock it. This limits unauthorized use to an extent when they do't have password.

The safest form of unlock is wienerprint. We leave fingerprints everywhere. Your face can be 3d printed fairly easily. Wieners are secure because no one has your wienerprint ever. Only you. And wienerprints also are more proof that dickgirls are best girls. Girlpussy btfo.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Won't they just shove their clitares into the webcam?

"SIT DOWN ON THE DILDO TO VERIFY USER"
b-but I'm a dude, don't you mean fleshlight or something?
"NO"

And while I like Windows 10 I strongly recommend using Win10 Pro, the home version is equivalent to a train ticket that allows you ride locked in a cage with the cattle.

Spoiler

It still blows my mind that they're slowly introducing bugs that breaks functionality that has worked ever since Windows 95.

 

[Recoil]

Mark of the beast when?

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

"SIT DOWN ON THE DILDO TO VERIFY USER"
b-but I'm a dude, don't you mean fleshlight or something?
"NO"

The Verge will run an article on how 'OSs that don't literally ream your ass aren't coming back, and here's why that's a good thing' and then another article on how the author is suffering from 'homophobic trolling'.

 

[XYZpdq]

did I miss something in the recent Windowses? I was under the impression Windows passwords were about as strong as a post it note on the keyboard saying "please don't use this"

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

did I miss something in the recent Windowses? I was under the impression Windows passwords were about as strong as a post it note on the keyboard saying "please don't use this"

Variations of the old WinNT 4.0 workaround to bypass passwords worked up until at least Windows 7 and probably even after that.

Here's the old WinNT method.

 

[Count groudon]

Lol PINs are so easy to crack there’s literally games based around doing it. Hell, I found a lost phone a few months ago and I was able to bust into it with a few lucky guesses so I could find the user’s number and return it to her.

It really irks me how much big companies are so obsessed with stripping you of your privacy in an attempt to shove shit down your throat. Corporations definitely should not be able to dig through your life the way they do.