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by willis936 1795 days ago
>The old security-convenience trade-off is an immutable law of the Universe.

I'm not so sure. I type many fewer passwords now that I switched from reusing the same password for everything to using a password manager. I went from 60 bits of entropy to over 100 and when my single password got compromised it also compromised every account. Now I type a password once when I unlock a PC and use Face ID to unlock the database on my phone. On the whole things are much more convenient and secure. It was just very inconvenient to touch every account I own.

Rather than a hard and fast rule of the universe, the trade-off assumes a lot of things, such as users are trying to be secure with a specific range of effort.