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Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread::undefined

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[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah fuck that. Sites need to adopt this passkeys instead. It’s an impossible task for people to have unique credentials for every site, even if they are “memorable”. This is a design issue not a personal responsibility one. When designing for large volumes of people, you have to assume that the majority will do something easy and stupid over difficult and smart.

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Sites need to stop needing an account for everything. My haveibeenpwnd is full of sites that I can't believe had my email in the first place. Obviously I gave it to them but like cmon