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by raverbashing 1264 days ago
Again, if companies didn't treat password data carelessly (or, even worse like your example) it would have been a minor issue

Yeah, I'm not advocating for password reuse, I'm saying that a good system would make it a non-issue
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RickHull 1264 days ago
> Again, if companies didn't treat password data carelessly

This is not a real solution. The real world is full of unreliable actors and byzantine generals. Any solution that depends on a perfect environment isn’t one.

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ncallaway 1264 days ago
The problem is you don’t need to get one company to behave well. You need to get every company to behave well.

It’s almost like saying “we don’t need to spend money on a court system, if we just got everyone in the country to work out their disagreements amicably”. While… true, it doesn’t sound like a plausible solution to my ear.

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raverbashing 1264 days ago
True. Which also means the expected reliability of a 3rd party password manager also goes down

Maybe we can just ditch passwords for most services

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