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I have a friend who can't actually tell you her passwords, because she doesn't know them. She just resets them every time she needs to log in to some site.
by rtsil 5y ago
I have a friend who can't actually tell you her passwords, because she doesn't know them. She just resets them every time she needs to log in to some site.
- dylan604 5y agoas moronic as that sounds, i know people just like this as well.
- azornathogron 5y agoI wouldn't like it myself because of the extra steps to reset each time, but it does make sense. "Can you access email sent to this address" is probably a reasonable authentication challenge for a lot of purposes. (It might even be phishing resistant...)
- rtsil 5y agoThe email she uses is the main email address from her ISP, so she can also reset it by requesting a reset code by text (or, at worst if she also loses her phone, by going to a store and showing her ID). After thinking about it, the only real problem I found was indeed the extra hassle. I stopped trying to convert her to a password manager after that.