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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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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Sadly that pretty much is 2FA. Although, well, actually it's just 2FA on your primary email account (and not listening to "opsec geeks" although maybe to people who have to do actual opsec)https://twitter.com/kevinriggle/status/1286149078674374656 …
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Less highly personal information spread across communal uses. Why does the app for your refrigerator need a password? Why does it need to confirm it is you with high confidence? Why does it need all of the information it collects?
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