Extrapolating the current savings to the entire userbase, they could save £6'000 every day, for a total of £2.190 million per year? That alone can justify the change and any associated costs, impressive!
> There is also a less glamorous incentive for Whitehall: text messages cost money. The switch is already saving taxpayers nearly £600 a day in SMS costs, according to the government.
> Whether Britain's 23 million One Login users share Whitehall's enthusiasm for replacing passwords is unclear. But with passkeys already accounting for almost 10 percent of daily logins (...)
I can guarantee you that they're going to spend MUCH MUCH more than that on support infrastructure, probably for the next couple of decades until the boomers die off. Trying to get your average boomer to use a password manager, let alone a passkey is next to impossible.
Extrapolating the current savings to the entire userbase, they could save £6'000 every day, for a total of £2.190 million per year? That alone can justify the change and any associated costs, impressive!
> There is also a less glamorous incentive for Whitehall: text messages cost money. The switch is already saving taxpayers nearly £600 a day in SMS costs, according to the government.
> Whether Britain's 23 million One Login users share Whitehall's enthusiasm for replacing passwords is unclear. But with passkeys already accounting for almost 10 percent of daily logins (...)
I can guarantee you that they're going to spend MUCH MUCH more than that on support infrastructure, probably for the next couple of decades until the boomers die off. Trying to get your average boomer to use a password manager, let alone a passkey is next to impossible.