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Sadly, portability trumps everything. The thing is, most people will never experience a identity theft. But most people will want to lock in to some service fro
by yk 13y ago
Sadly, portability trumps everything. The thing is, most people will never experience a identity theft. But most people will want to lock in to some service from a friends computer at some point. So immediate experience, as opposed to analysis, favors passwords over your suggestions.
- aragot 13y ago"I agree but" ;) With a little head scratching, there are excellent solutions. In Luxembourg, I had a little hard-printed card with 52 letters. At each login to my bank, I would be asked for 3 of them, plus my password. With this kind of extremely-cheap-and-portable token, I would dare to login even from an untrusted country. Because I never have to type the full 52 letters. That's only for email. Every other service relies on email security. The problem is, it's the provider (fb, gmail, ...) who chooses how their authenticate you. I wish a system like Mozilla Persona would gain traction (looking at you Gmail), because it would trigger innovation. There are a lot of better alternatives to passwords and SMS for 2FAs.