Speaking at an Interop keynote last week, Paypal chief information security officer Michael Barrett hinted that PINs and passwords may be going away when it comes to account security on smartphones. According to a post on CIO's website, Barrett serves as the president of the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, an industry group looking for ways to replace the 52-year-old password technology with stronger authentication methods.
FIDO combines hardware, software and Internet services to provide that higher level of authentication. That hardware can
