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I'm definitely not the target audience for this sort of thing so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but absolutely not. I already have an unreasonable disli
by CodeSgt 4y ago
I'm definitely not the target audience for this sort of thing so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but absolutely not.
I already have an unreasonable dislike for online services that have lengthy/complex password reset processes. Being forced to show up somewhere IRL to reset my password sounds like a fever dream to me.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoIt's not supposed to be easy to change these things. The easier it is for you to change legitimately, the easier it is for someone else to change illegitimately.
- ghaff 4y agoI'm not sure why you're being downvoted. There are better processes and worse processes. But there is absolutely a tradeoff between convenience and resistance to social engineering and other forms of attacks. Your Google account would absolutely be more secure if you could only make changes by showing up in Mountain View with 5 forms of ID between 2pm and 3pm on Thursday. And it would be less secure if you could just call someone up if you got locked out and asked them to pretty please reinstate your access. Physical presence isn't a panacea but it offers a lot of protections vs. online or over the phone. There are certain financial transactions that I pretty much need to transact physically at least in part.