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Re: Solo, it was funded in 20 minutes. It's entirely plausible a lot of people are going to play wait and see, and get one only once they start shipping. Also,
by cmurf 8y ago
Re: Solo, it was funded in 20 minutes. It's entirely plausible a lot of people are going to play wait and see, and get one only once they start shipping. Also, there are available competing products, and openness is just one possible path to trust.
Further, it's completely non-obvious to 99+% how to use a hardware key, let alone why they should. 1% who get it, might even be generous. And then, quite a lot of people have devices that can't use hardware keys, or shouldn't. I have any number of clumsy friends who shouldn't have something like a hardware key sticking out of their laptop at all hours of the day: I call it, inevitability.
Someone using a hardware key, probably uses random passphrases for each of their online services, stuffed into a password manager. Ergo they aren't low hanging fruit even without a hardware key. How much safer is someone who uses push authentication as their second factor, switching to a hardware key?
Anyway, a big part of what I think you're getting at is ordinary people lack the imagination of the risk they're taking; but then there's symmetry here because you lack the imagination that they have so little of it themselves.
- quilombodigital 8y agoOf course I lack imagination! That's why I asked HN! :)