The way to permanently cure someone’s headache is to cut off their head, and that appears to be the principle Yahoo has adopted with a new security policy announced Sunday. Users of Yahoo Mail no longer have to rack their brains to remember passwords, said Chris Stoner, director of product management. Instead, they can opt for on-demand passwords after signing in to their Yahoo.com account and entering their phone number. Yahoo will send them a verification code to enter, and the next time they sign in, it will send them an on-demand password.
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No Need to Waste Brain Space on Yahoo Passwords
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 16, 2015 12:56 PMThe way to permanently cure someone’s headache is to cut off their head, and that appears to be the principle Yahoo has adopted with a new security policy announced Sunday. Users of Yahoo Mail no longer have to rack their brains to remember passwords, said Chris Stoner, director of product management. Instead, they can opt for on-demand passwords after signing in to their Yahoo.com account and entering their phone number. Yahoo will send them a verification code to enter, and the next time they sign in, it will send them an on-demand password.