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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 28
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      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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 28
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      Is there no way to distribute the risks so losses are decoupled and localized? I think this situation is due to paranoid people designing diy systems for normies. Like compensating for bad autopilots in driverless cars with... heavier duty seatbelts.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 28
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 28
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 28
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 28
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      Password managers, ubikeys, 2FA apps: the earliest postmodern inconveniences.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 28
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 28
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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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        1. christina d'ache‏ @scrivenix Jul 28
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          an old friend of mine locked his bike up for much of a summer with a belt. just used it to tie to a tree or whatever. it wasn't a nice bike, but it worked (in a pretty high bike theft & other petty crime place). that has always stayed w me as lesson abt locks as social convention

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        2.  🔮 🧐 🛡‏ @nathan_acks Jul 28
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          My approach has been to use multiple security keys whenever possible. Makes it less likely to be cut off. Of course... Some sites only support one key. iOS (and even Android) support is bad. Doesn’t really solve the “how do I bootstrap access to my password manager” problem.

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          Probably the most “human-compatible” solution would be something like continuous biometric authentication... something like Apple’s Face ID, but using multiple devices to bootstrap each other. Lots of legitimate concerns about abuse and lock-in there.

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        2. Peter Wang‏ @pwang Jul 28
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          In some sense this is a micro manifestation of the broader pattern of technology society: we use tech to facilitate interactions (& scale the domain) that in previous eras would have relied on deep human trust. This separation atomizes humans, and increases fungibility of humans.

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        3. Peter Wang‏ @pwang Jul 28
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          We increasingly become the interchangeable parts in other people’s lives. You find it stark that you need locks for your bike. But your ancestors would have found it odder, by far, that you & your family sleep next to total strangers, separated by thin walls.

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