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Security is always traded off against convenience. That's not an excuse, it's just the nature of the beast.
by regularfry 16y ago
Security is always traded off against convenience. That's not an excuse, it's just the nature of the beast.
- gaius 16y agoIt's amazing how many people don't understand this. I like to tell people I can give them a 100% secure firewall. Then I tell them it's called an AirGap - do you still want it? Engineers understand that everything is a tradeoff.
- tjogin 16y agoEverybody knows this, it's a matter of whether it's worth it or not; where you draw the line. POF users did indeed get the convenience of a password reminder in every email. But they also got the inconvenience of having their passwords compromised, the consequences of which could both be catastrophic and go unnoticed for a long time. In summary, not a great user experience at all; thus "user experience" is a bad excuse, especially in this particular case.
- rimantas 16y agoActually not. I started using 1Password and I must say it increased both, security and convenience. No temptation to reuse the same (and simple) password, easy login ("Fill and login") and password generator with which I generated absurdly complex passwords I am using now. And I don't even have to remember them!
- regularfry 16y agoThat would be a single point of failure for your entire online life, it would seem. I've actually got no idea how one would assess where that sat on the trade-off spectrum.
- rimantas 16y agoWhat would you consider a failure? I use 1Password + Dropbox, so in effect my passwords database is backed on three computers and iPhone. That's one additional benefit: new logins and passwords are synced.
- regularfry 16y agoI would consider someone else gaining access to the contents of your 1Password database a failure.