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The market should sort it out is deeply naive wishful thinking. Numerous sites block copy/paste, block password managers from functioning well, still have passw
by cmurf 9y ago
The market should sort it out is deeply naive wishful thinking. Numerous sites block copy/paste, block password managers from functioning well, still have password rules from the Pleistocene let alone the most recent NIST recommendations. And those companies are worth more today than 10 years ago. So no, it really doesn't get sorted out. To the market, this is a detail it simply doesn't care about.
- sinxoveretothex 9y agoBecause it is a detail virtually nobody cares about. How insane would the password rules have to be for anyone to travel 1 hour more to go to a different university? How insane for them to stop playing a given video game? To change banking institutions? I don't have the answer for others, but for me, the answer to all of those is "pretty insane". Except for the banking case, password security is a minor concern (and even then, the system protects us with anti-fraud laws and what not). In a sense, the market is sorting itself out: it just decided that it doesn't care much about passwords. In fact, if you figure out a way to be profitable while offering twice the interest rate but every time people log in to your bank they have to dance the robot or whatever, you'd probably still have customers.
- user5994461 9y agoBanking institutions follow the NIST regulations, they are already changing.
- icebraining 9y agoBrowsers preventing this is also the market sorting it out.