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Re:Students Add Face Recognition to Meta's Glasses to Dox St... by Manuel_D on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:58PM (#41727246)
With respect to passwords, biometrics and password managers (or better yet, public key infrastructure) is the solution. Not privacy booths. If I had my way, apps wouldn't let users pick their own passwords: they'd email users 30+ character generated passwords that they couldn't possibly memorize and thus force people to use password managers.

Unfortunately, enforcing strong passwords drastically discourages new user signups. I remember when the security team enforced stricter password policies at Dropbox new signups dropped by a factor of 10 (by "stricter" I don't just mean length + special chars, they experimented with banning all of the 100K most common passwords). It just isn't economically sustainable to enforce strong passwords.

Re:Students Add Face Recognition to Meta's Glasses to Dox St... by sitkack on Monday October 07, 2024 @12:26PM (#41767663)
perhaps if you have a weak password, your service level or class is constrained.