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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over (www.wired.com)
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“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations to implement thanks to new initiatives the FIDO Alliance announced on Monday.

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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I work for multiple organizations. The majority of which have a Google sheet with their passwords in that are

      c0mpanyname2018!

Those that aren't are

       pandasar3cute123?
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I had to start hashing passwords and sending it to the haveibeenpwned API.

    I also fight with my users over data normalization because any time I add some rule (like don’t put “SO#” as part of the value of the “SO#” field), they’re too stupid to realize the point and find some other “hack” around it.

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