The fact is, when a human thinks of a password to use for themselves, this is a fundamentally insecure process. We have no cryptographic guarantees about the human brain like we do about a carefully-designed computer algorithm, and mounting evidence shows that humans are in fact quite predictable. One 2019 study found that by using a neural network, they were able to guess almost half of everyone's passwords in under 1000 attempts just by knowing a single one of that person's other passwords. It's only going to get worse from here.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cascdr 21 May
no u
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 21 May
Honestly... the tools are so good and easy to use now the problem is just people being lazy.
I think passkeys might be the only way forward. Passwords are fine but humans can't be trusted. This is why I think bitcoin will be mostly custodial in the future. That is until people can be bothered to actually care about the digital security.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 21 May
No... we are?
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