Google Wants to Get Rid of Passwords for Good, Apparently

We live in such a fast-paced technological world, you've only got to blink and your favourite app's had a new update. But Google is going big with its next adaption, because the tech giant​ has decided, casually, that it wants to get rid of passwords.

Yeah, who needs those vital character-combinations which prevent entry into a range of personal accounts? Nah, not bothered, me.

It's alright, there's no need to panic though. Google being Google has thought this through. In an interestingly-named 'Project Abacus', our favourite search engine plans to replace our current one-word system with a series of individually weak security stages which - when combined - create a system probably comparable to that laser scene with Catherine Zeta-Jones in ​Entrapment​.

In the not-too-distant future, technology is likely to get so sophisticated that we'll be using biometric indicators such as face and voice recognition, as well as subtle typing habits and browsing behaviour on a touchscreen.​ It's all very complex and ~sciencey~.

But while it'll probably stop hackers in their tracks - granted - I think there's a lot to be said for the humble password . Like, how will be able to make jokes like this if we don't have passwords?

I've also got worries about this new system. Because apparently it won't function in the familiar 'yes/no/right/wrong' way we're used to; it'll instead calculate a score based on your 'likeness' to yourself. But what if one of those stages ​does  ​use your ​face, and one day you've got a god-awful hangover and look nothing like your usual, radiant self? Will you just ​not ​be allowed into your online banking?

And I'm not being funny, but I don't want to have to sit there for half an hour staring at my phone screen in an attempt to get it to let me in via face recognition. Because I fail time and time again at getting into my very own country via the automated passport gate things, and this sounds like a very similar process to me.

All I'm saying is that I hope Google has thought these issues through. I'm sure they have, they're very qualified and all that, but I'm not a big fan of change and if we're going to have this new system forced upon us, I want to make sure it works.

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