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Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users

Google is bringing the password-killing “passkey” tech to its Advanced Protection Program users more than a year after rolling them out broadly.

With digital crime and online fraud exploding around the web, tech giants have stepped up their push in recent years to secure accounts and promote passkeys, a cryptographic authentication system, as a more-secure replacement for the scourge of passwords. Advanced Protection will also still offer users the option of enabling the service with traditional two-factor authentication where the hardware token is the second factor. Lily Hay Newman is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, digital privacy, and hacking.

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