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Comment Passkeys and 2FA (Score 1) 52

> since passkeys remove the need for 2FA as they are stored on your device

Technically passkeys are 2FA, because you need the device and you need your body. The server doesn't see both things, but if you steal the device without also kidnapping or compromising the user (such as by cutting off or taking a cast of their fingertip) you still can't log in, you need both factors.

Of course if the users biometrics are compromised they have little recourse to change them, but that's a general problem of biometrics as a factor.

Comment Don't miss the "I Love Lucy" lifestyle. (Score 1) 284

Every day was like those old sitcoms where the only joke was people always just missing each other because they didn't have the Internet. They were popular because they were relatable because missed connections were just life. You would plan whole days about being near a specific landline phone just so you wouldn't miss an important call.

Comment The mastodon "slump" is no such thing. (Score 1) 100

You have a bunch of new users signing into a new-to-them service, and the majority of them are still active months after the initial spike triggered by Musk's mismanagement on Twitter. Not only that, but the usage is dozens of times greater than before the muskopalypse. This is not a "slump". This is surprising strength for a complex and unoptimized platform.

Comment Re:Missing the point. (Score 1) 206

From https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/De... :

        MANY criticisms of this post were met with responseslike:

                “He builds lightsabers, James. Chill.”: link
                “Bye bye now”: link
                “Yes Sebastian. And if you can’t chill, you can unfollow. That’s how social media works. Just chill.”: link
                “Feel free to block or unfollow us” in response to “if only they’d not hire cops”: link
                “people can follow or unfollow us if they like” link

Comment Missing the point. (Score 1) 206

The story and all too many of the responses are missing the point.

It's not just that the new hire is a policeman engaged in clandestine surveillance, it's that they utterly dismissed the possibility that this could be a concern, AND they were nasty and dismissive responding to people who had a problem with it, and started making up tall tales about why the got pushback.

Comment There used to be another blog post about this... (Score 1) 77

... I can't find it now. If someone can pull it up that would be smashing.

Apparently (and approximately), there was a program that was using an error code returned from a DOS system call as a file handle (may have been 1, standard output), but it worked because the error code was 1. In Windows NT, a different error code was returned, so NT detected that this program was running and returned error code 1.

Comment Re:What we allow... (Score 1) 307

We just had one of our legs cut out when the ancient hardware in the meter can failed, and we ended up with a patchwork of powered and unpowered circuits in the house. all the lights and power sockets in the bedrooms were out, as well as all the lights and sockets in the den except for a 20A line we'd had put in for the treadmill.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 31

How do you figure? It's not a complete roll-out yet. And if only half the users have enabled 2FA then a 50% reduction in compromised accounts is consistent with 100% effectiveness of their MFA.

They allow you to use open-system challenge-response devices like Yubikeys, and TOTP software like the one built into 1Password.

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