“This project is the first big step towards making security simple and accessible for every user, on every device,” Dashlane writes in its announcement. Open YOLO promises to address that issue so people don’t get frustrated and give up on improving their cybersecurity. This is easy in a web browser - most password managers offer extensions that can automatically fill information - but harder in applications. The problem is getting information out of password managers. That can’t be said for biometric security, as horrifying as that seems. Password managers also have some benefits over biometric security, not least of them being the fact that hackers can’t 3D print a password to access your phone. One failure doesn’t result in a disaster. So if a 19-year-old Windows bug reveals your Microsoft account password, for instance you don’t have to worry about that same password being used to access your Facebook account. The solution: Tools that create and remember passwords that are truly secure. And even if a password is less simple, like “Rf*3PJ,6Ba,” using it across multiple websites means that a security breach on any of those sites puts all of the others at risk. Those passwords are easy to remember, but they’re also easy to guess.

That’s why many people use “password,” “12345678,” or some variation of a password like “ZeldaFan88” or “ZeldaFan89” on multiple sites. People suck at coming up with passwords, especially if they have to replace them on a regular basis. That’s good news, because using a password manager is currently the easiest way to make sure your most personal information isn’t going to be compromised by a weak password. This means that more people can use a password manager without having to worry about being frustrated when they try to sign in to an app. This is much more convenient than copying an item from a password manager, switching to the other app, and pasting it in a text field. In simpler terms, this means that Android developers will now be able to make their apps find their login data in a password manager, request access to that data, and use it. “To stay one-step ahead of the market demand,” Dashlane wrote in its announcement of the API, “Google and Dashlane are helping create a seamless, universally-acceptable Android app authentication solution to increase your online security.” The Open YOLO - “You Only Login Once” - API to remove the last excuse for not using a password manager.

Google and Dashlane have partnered to give the acronym YOLO a slightly new meaning.

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