[faeriechangling]

It's really not man.

Maybe for some irrelevant social media site I can understand doing password-only auth because who cares, but this has your DNA on it. Even if the person who has all their personal information leak doesn't care, they fucked over their entire family. I guess that's not 23andMe's fault though because they were just satisfying a rational user aversion!

Not only that, but the aversion to using methods of logon other than passwords are less rooted in passwords being easy, and more in passwords being STANDARD. Passkeys for instance are faster to use than passwords. The ONLY thing that makes passwords "Easy" is peoples refusal to start using something better because of one-time switching costs and inertia.

[strken]

Plastic cups and discarded napkins also have DNA on them, and yet most people are willing to leave those lying on the table in an airport food court. If an entire family gets "fucked over" by this leak, they're going to get...medically invasive spam?

Which is bad, obviously, but I think everyone is catastrophising it.