UK.gov begins killing off passwords for 23M users

ShadowOfThePit

Extrapolating the current savings to the entire userbase, they could save £6'000 every day, for a total of £2.190 million per year? That alone can justify the change and any associated costs, impressive! > There is also a less glamorous incentive for Whitehall: text messages cost money. The switch is already saving taxpayers nearly £600 a day in SMS costs, according to the government. > Whether Britain's 23 million One Login users share Whitehall's enthusiasm for replacing passwords is unclear. But with passkeys already accounting for almost 10 percent of daily logins (...)