Or the recent Twitter hack: they hacked the most famous people in the world like Jeff Bezos, all because they were powered by people obsessed with getting, of a

Or the recent Twitter hack: they hacked the most famous people in the world like Jeff Bezos, all because they were powered by people obsessed with getting, of all things, usernames like 'A' etc. Who would dare to write that up as a serious proposal for how computer security would work in 2020? And yet... (I take it as yet another example of Littlewood's law: https://ww.gwern.net/Littlewood https://ww.gwern.net/Littlewood )