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Why is webauthn being adopted so slowly? Why do we have passwords at all? Why doesn't the US government calculate how much taxes each person owes and send them
by postalrat 5y ago
Why is webauthn being adopted so slowly? Why do we have passwords at all? Why doesn't the US government calculate how much taxes each person owes and send them a bill/check and let them dispute it?
- Nextgrid 5y ago> Why is webauthn being adopted so slowly? Why do we have passwords at all? Microsoft's WebAuthn implementation was completely unusable in Safari until a few months ago for me and would just fail at enrollment with a useless, generic error - not sure who is to blame but the point is that it's much more complex than passwords which are merely a text-based secret that only requires a text input field. > Why doesn't the US government calculate how much taxes each person owes and send them a bill/check and let them dispute it? That's a political problem, but frankly not too far off from the 2FA situation at hand where every company insists on using their own, non-interoperable, often shitty authenticator (a comment above raises an issue with the various not-functionally-necessary permissions that the Microsoft Authenticator app requires on Android) instead of adhering to an open standard such as TOTP (yes it has issues, but the world would still be much better off if we at least converged on that).
- azalemeth 5y agoEssentially huge chunks of the awful mess that is o365 only work in Chrome. I have no idea why, but rather than being standards compliant we seem to be going back towards the realms of a browser monoculture and all the down side that go with it.