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Sensitive sites should use 2-factor authentication by default as your method won't help against keyloggers and other malware. I don't like 2-factor authentication (it's more time consuming and costly to get a throw away phone number than a new single purpose email address to register to a random site), but this method is even less user friendly as you can't expect an average user to remember a random symbol string in few months. What would really improve security situation is a good, easy to use, cross platform, cross device password manager that would be included in major browsers by default.



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