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It's still ignoring one of the main features of passwords for regular people, which is authority delegation via password sharing, aka. "could you please log in to my ${service} and do ${something}, my password is ${password}...".

Yes, that is a feature and a normal use case that has equivalents in meat space, that security aficionados refuse to recognize even exists, much less support.



Not only that, they don’t need to worry if they lose their phone they’re locked out of their accounts too!




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