Passwords are the bane of users and security teams’ lives. Despite years of security teams educating users about not using 123456 as a password, not recycling passwords across multiple personal and professional accounts, and implementing even more rigorous password rules and investments in password manager tools, these combinations of letters, numbers, and special characters remain a rich target for attackers. But now, we might be on the cusp of the extinction of passwords as we know them, and moving to passwordless authentication.  \r\n Extinction events are commonly associated with events that cause a sudden decrease in biodiversity on the planet. Many have been associated with volcanoes and asteroids that have affected the heat of the planet or the amount of CO2 in the air.…