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This would be nice. Even better would be to do away with passwords entirely in favor of email + physical token. There's no getting away from the fact that crack
by jfb 14y ago
This would be nice. Even better would be to do away with passwords entirely in favor of email + physical token. There's no getting away from the fact that crackers will always get access to a certain number of passwords; properly incentivizing people to pick excellent passwords seems like a fool's errand. Cue xkcd here. I hold out some hope that Apple (my computing vendor of choice) will roll 1Password-like functionality into the OS (both of them). Only a default-secure system will get the general public into a more secure state -- how long has the computer industry tried to strong-arm people into strong passwords, only to be defeated by 12password12 &c.? It's not that users are stupid, it's that the technology to secure computers is an utter failure.
- egypturnash 14y agoWell, there's the Keychain. But its password generation is hidden deep in the program, not right there when you're asked to create one. And it doesn't synch to anything, not even iOS devices, so it's pretty much useless for generating passwords that are, say, 2k of line noise. It would be totally awesome if Apple acquihired 1PW or LastPass or somesuch, and set things up so that it's always right three, helpfully offering a new super-entropic password whenever you're joining a new site.