On 6/7/2012 8:58 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Jun 7, 2012, at 2:14 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
Imaging signing up for a site by putting in your email and pasting
your public key.
I'm imagining my mother trying this, or trying to help her change it
after the hard drive dies and the media in the safe deposit box
doesn't read anymore.
There are other issues than not being familiar with technology, and they
specifically affect those of us who have grown older, and lost certain
dexterity that used to be innate. There are passwords and pass phrases I
used to have committed to muscle memory. I never even had to think about
them. I've had to spend literally hours trying to type in a PGP pass
phrase that used to be something I could type without thinking.
There is no one size fits all solution to this. I'm still very annoyed
with a company that has only now moved to a password solution that
should have been in place in 2005. I still don't want single sign on.
Not anywhere. I've been around for a very long time, and I'm fine with
technical complexity for me, but do not expect the standard 16 year old
text messaging addict to be able to handle some of the solutions I've
seen suggested, much less most people my age.
Things are so complex now that people on nanog-l forget the average
level of expertise among their peer groups is simply not replicated in
the outside world. Jokes about needing a teenager to reprogram your VCR
are a thing of the past. I used to be in the business of forecasting the
future (among other things), and any security solution that is more
difficult than knowing not to use the same password for your bank that
you do for Facebook is doomed to fail.
{P.S. Ditto on thanks for backup DNS.}
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