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Security Keys

Imperial Violet

The first instance of this that Google can find is from Bill Gates in 2004 , although I suspect it wasn’t the first. The FIDO Alliance is a group of major relying parties, secure token manufacturers, and others which defines many of the standards around Security Keys. This term refers to any entity trying to authenticate a user.

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Predictions 2022 – Crypto, Climate, Big Tech, Streaming, Offices, Tik Tok…and (ugh) Trump

John Battelle's Searchblog

Meta and Apple will buy gaming companies, Amazon will buy enterprise software companies, and Google will buy a content library. Plus, if we get through Omicron and back out into the world, consumers might just find themselves doing something besides binging forgettable, algorithmically manufactured programming. 2004 Predictions.