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Re:Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless f... by echelon on Monday September 20, 2021 @05:10PM (#28599045)
Who needs passwords when your identity is owned by a corporation?

Use your^W the newest rented iDevice in your vicinity to confirm your identity. Make sure to replace the device regularly and have an active subscription to our movies, music, spying, and more services so that we can fulfill your banking login request today. It's important that you eat so that you may work and consume more.

We'll charge the customary 55% fee to everyone you interact with that isn't in our device platform bubble. Make sure not to log in with their account system or you may find your identity reputation score lowered and your chat bubbles rendered in poop brown to your peer group. How disgraceful.

Remember to buy our official chargers. Here are some ads from third party sponsors. Thank you.

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Re:Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless f... by dane-pgp on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:39PM (#28600784)
"It's as simple and painless as letting us record the unique biometric markers in your right hand or forehead, and then you're on your way to enjoying the global economic system that you're required to use.

Just make sure you agree to the 13,000 word self-updating terms of service, and don't use our devices to express any opinions that go against the set of socially acceptable beliefs that our company expects all its employees and users to hold."

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Re:Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless f... by userbinator on Monday September 20, 2021 @05:29PM (#28599239)
Exactly. The authoritarian "security" industry is largely to blame for helping to build this dystopia of corporate control.
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Re:Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless f... by rrobukef on Monday September 20, 2021 @06:23PM (#28599814)
More than three decades of bugs, crashes, worms, virused, trojans, hackers, scammers, social engineering, ransomware, idiot users and the occasional battery fire. I'd secure my device as well.
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Re:Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless f... by citrusynapse on Monday September 20, 2021 @05:35PM (#28599312)
"Remember to buy our official chargers. Here are some ads from third party sponsors."

Holy hell this hit hard.

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Re:Microsoft ruined passwords, now aims for a passwordless f... by hammyhavoc on Monday September 20, 2021 @05:34PM (#28599303)
A forbidden thought.
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