One of the most common banes of technology and internet in our lives is remembering a large assortment of passwords to access all the information we need. Email, banking, social media sites, you name it and its has its own online password. And forgetting one of them is simply not an option.

For those of us afflicted with forgetting a great many things, the days of diligently writing down whatever passwords we do not wish to forget, may soon be over. The FIDO Alliance is a non profit organization which brings together the might of Microsoft, Google, VISA, MasterCard and PayPal. Their admirable purpose? To kill passwords as we know them.

What the group is working on is being able to use biometric data such as finger prints, voice recognition or even face recognition as a replacement for traditional word based, written passwords. The system would include a two stage authentication where in besides the biometric identification a unique USB key would also be provided.

This is a science project with great potential uses and is under development at present. Implementation of this system on a planet of ever increasing internet users is going to be a large and perhaps costly affair.