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submitted 1 year ago by Cabrio@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.

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[-] emptyother@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing is simpler than passwords. But we want something thats both simple and safe. Even for lazy people, tech-unsawy people, and people with bad memory.

What if every pc came with a jubikey-ish reader and every website supported a browser api for it? Probably not jubikey, but something that fit in a wallet like bank cards do (but also was an open tech so that anyone can implement and sell cards). Wouldn't it be both safer and simpler than passwords? It would take some time to turn around of course but the same was probably the case for https, 2fa, ipv6, and tpm's.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Those are called smart cards. Traditional smart cards needed centralized management of credentials, but FIDO2 smart cards exist that work like the keys. The reason tokens are more typically USB-based (or NFC) is every PC has USB, but most don’t have smart card readers.

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It would take some time to turn around of course but the same was probably the case for https, 2fa, ipv6, and tpm’s.

Oh yeah... Definitely good IPv6 support everywhere. That really turned around, and we're not dragging our feet on implementing IPv6 at all 🥲.

this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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