We replaced passwords with something worse (blog.danielh.cc)

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[-] vzqq 1 points 23 hours ago

That’s how password recovery works on most services. So if it’s any consolation, it’s not a new security vulnerability. We are just skipping the charade where I pretend to remember a password.

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