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by kazinator 539 days ago
The author of this article is unaware of the possibility of an audience who has no idea what the use case looks like for a short temporary token to be stored in a semi-permanent store like a password manager; what does it do? How does the token get there, and how is it used? Does the password manager infrastructure have access to the stream of tokens so that it populates the latest one, and fills it in for you when you're authenticating? Obviously any manual step in handling the token via the password manager will be worse (or no better) than just entering the token manually into the authentication dialog, so it has to work that way?