Target market. A junkie will crawl across glass for a rock even if he wont take a shower.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 9:43 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > Some people might drive 10 miles to get a wifi signal, but some people > barely have the motivation to get out of bed and take a shower. > On 2/24/2021 8:38 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > > This got me thinking. What do you think the public's tolerance would be > for full throated protection if it came at the cost of inconvenience, like > you have to verify your identity to reset a password, but that also means a > malicious actor would have to do the same. If one of the steps required > human interaction, like going to a bank, or the dmv (never the dmv) or any > authorized identity verification location. Almost every jail and police > department in every podunk town has digital fingerprinting now. Most larger > towns have businesses whose sole purpose is fingerprinting people. There > are tons of ways to verify identity in person on top of the digital > mechanisms attached to Nexus. > > Would the inconvenience force people to become more proactive to avoid the > inconvenience, like actually use a legitimate password manager and 2FA? > Would they maybe not click every link they see? > > I think its obvious that adoption, if voluntary would be virtually nil. > But what if the big 3 apple, Google and facebook implemented it? Noting > that those three also are the verification medium for a large percentage of > everything else. > > It's a matter of time until identity theft is a multitrillion dollar > industry, the vast majority is rooted in convenience over security. I can > see even republicans backing funding for this type of thing considering the > cost is going to be much less than the recovery costs of id theft > > People will drive 10 miles to get a wifi signal for facebook, it's really > not outside the realm of reason for this to be a feasible process. > > Can this idea be patented? > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 1:13 PM Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2/24/21 06:17, Mark - Myakka Technologies wrote: >> > Well she got back in with help from my son. Still not sure what the >> > deal was. Guess I'll have to start looking at 1Password or >> LastPassword. >> >> >> Facebook actually supports decent 2FA options like TOTP and FIDO (i.e. >> yubikey) for 2FA. I'd recommend enabling one of those. >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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