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People know password reuse is risky but keep doing it anyway
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Of course, the passwords required today are impossible to remember. Unwieldy long and complex, while they aren’t the strongest defense layer anyway anymore. Session cookie theft, base64 encoded passwords, csrf, malcertising and good social engineering - but few of these are on the users’ side. Despite their final godawful implementation, passkeys are way better than passwords, and it’s good to see companies like Apple and Microsoft offer them to users in usable ways.
And thats why we have password managers.
And you log on to your password manager with a.. password maybe? Yes, password managers are quite an enhancement but it doesn’t change that passwords are a bad solution.