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It's not for you. It's for people who don't know what a password manager is and can barely remember their password. If they actually remember it. Many people re
by iteria 3y ago
It's not for you. It's for people who don't know what a password manager is and can barely remember their password. If they actually remember it. Many people rely on their phones always having access.
I have dealt with a lot of family members who absolutely cannot be trusted to remember even a single password if they don't have to type it in semi-regularly. I've have family members locked out of password vaults because 2 weeks is too long to expect them to remember a password.
This is who that flow is catering to. It's a significant amount of people, sadly.
- jollyllama 3y agoIt's a logical consequence of expecting people to authenticate fully with services in a physical context outside of a computer desk at home where passwords can be safely written down. Unfortunately a hardware key is simply the modern version of this. What would be better is the issuance of limited permissions for other context in the form of less secure tokens. An example of this is the old school example of logging into your airline account and printing out your tickets to take to the airport.
- skydhash 3y agoI was watching a demo of palm pda and I liked the fact you have a syncing software on your computer. I'd gladly sync auth secrets to my iPhone so I can access services instead of authenticating on the phone itself.