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  1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2019 11:51:25 EST Strypey Strypey

    There's some good advice in here about what *not* to do with passphrase policies for online services, and why, with some potentially helpful references. But ultimately I disagree with a lot of Troy's conclusions, because they're biased by what kind of US makes sense to him, a power user with a high level of security knowledge, not a #JoUser. My favourite approach is what #Medium does; they send a login link to your registered email address instead of storing a password.
    https://www.troyhunt.com/passwords-evolved-authentication-guidance-for-the-modern-era/

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      Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
      from Troy Hunt
      In the beginning, things were simple: you had two strings (a username and a password) and if someone knew both of them, they could log in. Easy. But the ecosystem in which they were used was simple too, for example in MIT's Time-Sharing Computer, considered to be the first computer
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