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by TeMPOraL 6 days ago
It's still ignoring one of the main features of passwords for regular people, which is authority delegation via password sharing, aka. "could you please log in to my ${service} and do ${something}, my password is ${password}...".

Yes, that is a feature and a normal use case that has equivalents in meat space, that security aficionados refuse to recognize even exists, much less support.

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Not only that, they don’t need to worry if they lose their phone they’re locked out of their accounts too!