2FA and password managers are a lousy design solution to password security. Just moves all risks upstream into a Grand Unified Metacatastrophe Risk: losing your phone or primary key device. There’s got to be a better way.
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Beginning to think mass cryptography is the interchangeable parts of the digital age, and its primary impact is inconvenience. Just like the primary impact of interchangeable parts is convenience. Except it is non-interchangeable identities.
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“Modern conveniences” was a cliche for describing industrial mass production artifacts like refrigerators and vacuum cleaners. I’ll be using the term postmodern inconveniences for the effects of mass cryptography.
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Every opsec geek has a great solution: for opsec geeks. We need a solution for somewhat careless mediocre types.
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Password managers, ubikeys, 2FA apps: the earliest postmodern inconveniences.
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Your online identity is a thing you own like a car or home. Comes with all the maintenance hassles but no guaranteed capital asset type value.
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Though I guess once upon a time physical locks were rare too and people left homes open. And today I just locked up our bikes in new apartment complex bike room with a complex weave of chains and U-locks. Every tech era comes with locks and keys for the stack layer it adds
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Yes, you get rid of passwords altogether, but it's hard to get people to redesign all of their systems, even though it would be more secure in the end.
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this necessitates getting rid of the concept of "you are authorized to do X" and replace it with "you have an unforgeable token that allows you access to Y to do X"
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