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by jrockway 3433 days ago
I think the use case is people browsing your site in a coffee shop. They wouldn't shout their password for everyone in the room to hear, but that's exactly what their computer's doing. Yeah, probably nobody overhearing the password is going to use their account to start posting embarrassing nonsense. But it's good for their user agent to inform them that that could happen.

State-sponsored actors aren't going to try to brute-force the encryption so they can post to your aquarium forum, that's true.