Odido heeft Startphone uitgebracht, een Android-launcher die het gebruik van smartphones beperkt. De launcher is bedoeld om kinderen stapsgewijs kennis te laten maken met smartphones en ouders hierbij te ondersteunen. Startphone is samen met twee Amsterdamse universiteiten ontwikkeld en is gratis beschikbaar, ook voor niet-Odido-klanten.

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I’ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a pin on your phone, or facial recognition, can be safer than using a complicated password and two-factor authentication.

I get that having something unique to your device, not stored on a company’s server, is unphishable and less hackable by cybercrims, but what if your phone is nicked and someone guesses the password? And what if you lose your phone?

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