Perhaps homeopathy can be practiced safely if you accurately convey the risks and tradeoffs. The placebo effect is real, it might help a handful of people. Homeopathy is still trash though.
If it did, we could just cause temporary lull after lull with more nonsense schemes and that would be good enough. We can't. U2F is a real solution to phishing, it actually works and isn't just temporary busy work for attackers.
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Remember "security phrases"? It "solved" phishing by making users type in a phrase or image to prove it was the real site. It was trash, just like 2FA, but attackers had to change scripts and maybe Chris will argue was a deterrent, I don't know. Do you think this is sustainable?
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Since I hath been summoned; you’ll always find yourself wanting to argue for implementing whatever the current best is, but the best solution may not be the right solution for that problem, at that time. Arguing against doing what you can in favor of doing what you should is bad
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