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0 pointsyellowapple3y ago0 comments

> How about the homeless person remembers a good password,

Which would go one of two ways:

1. One uses the same password one uses everywhere else, and now one is much more vulnerable to credential stuffing

2. One is reliant on a book of passwords or a password management app on one's phone, resulting in the same exact problem we're trying to solve

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radford-neal3y ago

No. One can just remember a good password for gmail, and either use other passwords elsewhere (maybe bad, re-used, ones, or maybe good ones, not relevant if we're talking about gmail), or just always authenticate elsewhere using your gmail account.

Remembering one good password is not too onerous. Easier, it seems, that keeping any physical object in your possession if you're homeless. (I would assume that most losses are not due to cognitive failure, but instead are things like thefts when one is asleep.)

LightHugger3y ago

being homeless doesn't mean you don't have the ability to remember a good password. good means not duplicated.

yellowappleOP3y ago

Even people not dealing with the stress and trauma of being unhoused have trouble remembering passwords - even when they're shared across accounts, let alone when they're unique. This ain't a "homeless people are dumb" argument; it's a "humans gonna human" argument.