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> What happens when the user loses/ forgets their password? When your password is the same password you use to login to your device and/or your fingerprint or
by tristor 4y ago
> What happens when the user loses/ forgets their password?
When your password is the same password you use to login to your device and/or your fingerprint or faceprint, it's a bit hard to "lose". That's exactly what I mean by user ergonomics trade-offs. Technically, it might be better to have a different password for important things that are encrypted vs your login password, but in practice what matters is that the average user's device is basically a brick to a thief both from the perspective of using said device on the black market or stealing the user's data.
Maybe this is one of those weird splits that now exists in the world between people who operate in sane UX ecosystems like Apple-land vs those who continue to accept unending abuse from Microsoft and Google in the Windows/Android cesspit. I just don't see the issue you're describing occurring for most average users in 2023, at least in the West.