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		krupan on July 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why even let users set their own passwords? That's like saying: IPv6 is basically IPv4 with bigger addresses, right?

madeofpalk on July 23, 2023 [–]

It’s like saying “we shouldn’t have to worry about ip address starvation”, and having IPv6 as exactly the solution

krupan on July 23, 2023 | [–]

Righ, so 20 years from now we'll all still be using passwords while a few people play around with webauthn

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