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No password is secure. With so many password alternatives now available, such as FIDO and passwordless authentication, we can get rid of passwords for good.

No password is secure. With so many password alternatives now available, such as FIDO and passwordless authentication, we can get rid of passwords for good.

Nok Nok Labs announced this week the first FIDO-based authentication for smart watches, called Nok Nok App SDK for Smart Watch. Basically, organizations can allow users to authenticate to company apps using their smart watch.

Could the Apple Watch someday completely replace your iPhone? I doubt it, as the camera features of the smartphone would be impossible to replicate on the smartwatch. However, some folks disagree.

Nok Nok Labs (Nok Nok), the trusted leader in next-generation consumer authentication, today announced the “Nok Nok App SDK for Smart Watch,” the industry’s first FIDO-based authentication solution with support for smart watch devices.

Authentication solutions provider Nok Nok Labs has officially announced the availability of FIDO-based passwordless authentication for smart watches.

The Apple Watch could completely replace passwords and one-time codes, thanks to a new form of authentication being touted as a way to “solve the world’s password problem.”

There is little doubt that passwords are a horrible anachronism from an era of green screens and mechanical keyboards, but yet they keep on holding despite the fact that as users are forced to use them in dozens, if not hundreds, or places, they’ve become more of a security risk…