Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext

• veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But that can be said of any of the other such called factors:

  A yubikey can be stolen

  A fingerprint can be scanned and distributed

  So its not really an argument against passwords (or passkeys, or passwordless, or whatever marketing want to call them these days).

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  • AlwaysTheir@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My yubikey can be stolen but good luck guessing my PIN in the 3 to 9 tries allowed before it self destructs.

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    • veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      luck? I have a $5* wrench.

      * (Actually a $7 wrench. Inflation is murder around here.)

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      • AlwaysTheir@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you have me… you win. My technology however will never betray me.

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  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most people just need to fear their passwords being cracked remotely. In masses.

    If your threat model is being known, people stealing your stuff to login to your things, this is very high.

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