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What is the alternative you propose?

• rkeene2 5y ago
  I think the universe is slowly standardizing on WebAuthn/U2F for this. The US Government got rid of passwords in 2004 by switching to smartcards, and Google also did so in 2017 by switching to hardware security tokens.
  • itisit 5y ago
    That’s fine for tech businesses with dedicated IT support, but what about consumers?
    • rkeene2 5y ago
      Use what Google builds, which will likely (as I mentioned) be WebAuthn based
• harveywi 5y ago
  Hard drives are large enough nowadays to contain a whole copy of the internet. Instead of connecting to the internet to access the web, computers should serve up local copies of the sites instead. Then it is 100% secure and there is no more need for passwords or insecure WiFi connections.
  • paxys 5y ago
    1. No they are not 2. The core problem is still that you need to be able to communicate with others, for which you need to identify yourself. Where a site is served from doesn't change that.
  • PalzyPunk 5y ago
    Bless your heart, you probably think Google is one website, huh? How big could all that text be, a terabyte?
    • marrs 5y ago
      How come the quite thoughtful comment you’re replying to is downvoted while your snotty little reply isn’t?
  • lobocinza 5y ago
    English Wikipedia is 150GB with images, Ethereum full blockchain is almost 1TB. Library Genesis and SciHub are both hundreds of TB. Also. Good luck reading new emails while offline.