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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nmott@infosec.exchange wrote:
the thing is, when companies insist on making software worse and worse and worse, “this makes no sense and i’ve never had to do it before” stops being the first line of defense against low-effort bullshit like this: https://bird.makeup/users/moonlock%5Fcom/statuses/2088010016926109872
you know what else companies never insisted on until they did? sharing phone numbers for multi-factor auth. completing at least one motherfucking captcha every time you want to view a website. or, alternatively, watching a strange catgirl fill a progress bar or complain that your browser won’t accept cookies every time you want to view a website. having a microsoft account to install windows. agreeing to have your whole-ass face scanned to, again, view a fucking website. being asked to set up something called a “passkey” even though you just signed in with your fuckin’ pass*word* and a code you retrieved from an app that generates these funny six-digit keys but always makes it so you have enough time to view a key but not enough time to be confident it’s going to be valid when you copy it so you have to wait for the next one to be generated.
“$COMPANY would never ask you to do $STUPID_BULLSHIT” only works if you aren’t living in the era of every company asking the people unfortunate enough to still use their products to constantly do stupid bullshit.