Kent Borg wrote:
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.
Where the tiny shiny is, in my estimation, fundamental to the bad solution. The pure convenience ideals of smartphones and tablets do not dispose these devices to strong security.
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.)
No, but I do remember when we generally didn't care much about security beyond whether a particular DOS diskette had a boot sector virus. Those were the days when guest accounts were commonplace and RMS could get away with having no passwords on any of his accounts.
Then Robert Morris happened (remember him? that wasn't so long ago) and everything started changing.
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