[forgottenpass]

Each situation is unique, but leaning too hard on that fact starts to resemble "It's different when I [Mozilla] do it."

there's really no need to rely on Slate to tell us what to think here.

It's OK, good even, to stick your ear outside the tech bubble. But you shouldn't let anyone - in or out - tell you what to think. Everyone has ideas, synthesize them with a heavy scoop of context. You should be as skeptical of tech-bubble sources as you are mainstream ones, just in some different ways for different reasons.