As I’ve said before, passwords suck. Microsoft agrees—last year, it announced a goal of getting one billion users to embrace passkeys instead. As part of that effort, setting up a passkey for a ...

Passwords have one big flaw: If anyone guesses what your password is, you’re left with no defense. It’s why we use password managers and two-factor authentication to better safeguard our accounts.

It takes 10 minutes max, and you’ll avoid a huge headache if you ever forget your password or lose access to your 2FA methods ...