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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“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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As a former manager of mine used to say, "Cryptography is a technology for breaking our customers' web sites."
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i think of it like very literal physical friction like.. allocating extra memory and spending an extra 5ms to authenticate a key pair
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in the case of something like bcrypt there's actual "do more work to take longer" tuneable knobs
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