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“Financial transactions don't generally happen on first visits to websites” is just a description of how things are today, it doesn’t help us think about how th
by snowwrestler 5y ago
“Financial transactions don't generally happen on first visits to websites” is just a description of how things are today, it doesn’t help us think about how things could be or could have been.
Any purchase is a financial transaction; not sure why you zeroed in on banking. Those happen during first visits offline all the time.
- tptacek 5y agoI'm responding to the specific concern raised on the thread, not presenting my unified theory of authentication. WebAuthn is a better solution to "authenticating connections to services we have long-term relationships with, regardless of our relationships to particular websites" than anything in the TLS protocol could be.