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I love password based login (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (7 children)

alternatives to passwords are just excuses to harvest info

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not if it comes to hardware-based passkeys I would argue

[–] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

true, but i would also argue that's a much less utilised alternative. most people don't even know what that is even though it's a great redundancy.

[–] brian@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago

they don't need to know what's happening when a panel pops up on their phone, says touch the fingerprint scanner, and enrolls a passkey. it's on the companies

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