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This is interesting and somewhat confronting to me. Can we just get rid of passwords that simple? Do we end up with a system that's of equal or higher safety?
by keyle 12y ago
This is interesting and somewhat confronting to me. Can we just get rid of passwords that simple?
Do we end up with a system that's of equal or higher safety?
Agreed that convenience is definitely up, since we have email clients built into everything.
- matthewbauer 12y agoI don't think this is a great solution for highly sensitive information like banking - most people have lots of different devices that receive their email and just one "weak" link could give malicious access. That being said, for sites this that are more concerned with "verification" than "authentication" this seems like a viable approach.
- zippergz 12y agoIt seems not much less secure than a system that lets you reset your password simply by clicking a link in an email (which is to say, most password-based systems on the web). Either way, once you have access to the email account, you can authenticate.