Sigh.
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You don't need xkcd 538 to break a weak password. And since we're talking about the password people type in by hand to login to their computers, not passwords stored in a password manager, goodness knows that password is going to be weak.
I suppose it would take more than 5 minutes, though.
Then again, if we're talking about the kind of ninja who could sneak into a corporate office building unnoticed, he probably already saw you type in your password…
I'm shocked to learn that Windows makes it hard to use a hardware token to log in. I remember Windows championing smart cards back in the 1990s when everybody else had never heard of anything other than passwords.
Old-fashioned card-slot-type smart card readers do seem to be a thing of the past now, but a cursory web search says some laptops have NFC interfaces and some smart cards are NFC enabled. That must be what the cool kids are using these days.
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I'm shocked to learn that Windows makes it hard to use a hardware token to log in. I remember Windows championing smart cards back in the 1990s when everybody else had never heard of anything other than passwords.
Old-fashioned card-slot-type smart card readers do seem to be a thing of the past now, but a cursory web search says some laptops have NFC interfaces and some smart cards are NFC enabled. That must be what the cool kids are using these days.
@argv_minus_one @nicholas @7666
>but a cursory web search says some laptops have NFC interfaces and some smart cards are NFC enabled.
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>but a cursory web search says some laptops have NFC interfaces and some smart cards are NFC enabled.
Dell used to have NFC smart card readers on some of their laptops at least until recently. Don't know if they still do.@phnt @nicholas @7666 @argv_minus_one Sorry to interject but I just updated #Pleroma and I want to make sure federation is working (as the logs had a message saying it might not be working). If you can see this please say 'hi' or give an like/emoji reaction
