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by digitalsushi 4001 days ago
I actually had an idea for password as a service.

The security implications are all rubbish, and obviously it fails if the site goes away, but hear me out and then offer a local way of doing this, cause I'd love it:

Let's pretend you have some set of computer files that are distracting you. (A video game, or old high school/pre-divorce/estranged family photo albums, this could be anything). You want to keep them, but you want to restrict your own access to them.

Password as a service: you go to some little widget site, enter an email address, a date, and it gives you a password. Unless you have a photographic memory, you just paste it into a protected archive, forget it, and then wait until the date to get emailed a password reminder. Until then, you are locked out of your archive and there's nothing to be done until that day.

I haven't figured out a clever way of this that can't be defeated if the password is generated locally.