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by 91iejrj20310 2371 days ago
It's a shame that operating systems exist with no functioning system-wide API for authentication, let alone storing passwords.

That would change things.

Just look how Apple now inserts long random passwords in registration forms and immediately saved it. That's how users will use secure authentication. By helping them, not telling them to do better on their own.