Passwords suck. They’re hard to remember, annyoing to forget, dangerous to store, and a magnet for hackers and scammers. That’s why I use them as little as possible in favor of Apple’s Keychain technology, which creates and stores hard-to-guess passwords.
But Facebook could make all of that go away.
Today at F8, Facebook’s developer conference, the company announced an update to something with a very ordinary name but significantly revolutionary capabilities: Delegated Account Recovery.