On 07/25/2013 07:44 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
So what's the objective of this exercise? Are you looking for practical
answers or are you just looking for reasons to shoot down the idea of
password safes?
Just to demonstrate how frustrating it is to have strong
authentication on small, touch screen devices.
Or, demonstrating how frustrating it is to have a bad solution. But
most humans can cache a few passwords, and that makes all the difference.
The most common 6 or 8 passwords I use in a day I know from memory. But
when I do have to look up one, I much prefer to be on my notebook where
I can type a decent master password easily. Using my dedicated
non-phone phone is, indeed, a pain: I have to enter a decent device
password (endpoint security!) and then I have to enter the master
password. It takes some time. But it is more convenient than not
having remote access. (Old-timers: Remember when we didn't really have
any remote access to much of anything? Okay, let that offer a little
perspective.)
-kb, the Kent who thinks it is good to *not* have really easy remote
access to his retirement or checking or credit card accounts.
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