“the internet is bad and emotions prevail there” maam do you have any idea how big the internet is? youre seeing a singular port and saying its the entire ocean
and dont get me on the cybersecurity and electronics ones
“use a strong password” whats that gonna do if the database gets pwned, sandra? or if you get pwned by a 0click 0day
“blue light is bad for you” LOL
Strong passwords aren’t intended to simply protect against brute-forcing a password via trying to authenticate repeatedly, but also to help protect against brute-force attempts to obtain passwords from a compromised password database using a dictionary attack, the scenario you’re describing.
Typically — if an authentication system is storing its password database competently — the password shouldn’t be stored in plain text. Instead, the password will be salted (to avoid rainbow table attacks) and then hashed via a cryptographic hash. The password database entry will look something like a tuple of (username, salt, salted hashed password). If the password is a strong one, it will be computationally-hard to obtain the plaintext password, even if someone has the salt and the salted, hashed password.
I know using a strong password is important, but thats the bare minimum. this is more directed to the people who think strong passwords are the grail and will LITERALLY not do anything else, and call people paranoid schizos when they try to suggest security
That’s fair.
What would you have them do? What are they missing?
Yeh, for 99% of casual internet users… they just aren’t going to care about that.
They don’t want their email/Facebook/back account pwnd.
Like, at all.
It’s like saying that 0.01% of traffic fatalities are because an airbag forces your head into the roof of the car. So you should wear a helmet when driving.
You aren’t wrong.
Internet is a massive part of our daily lives. We should be able to fully trust the things we use to interact with it.
But convenience is going to win
Hey I’m like that. Honestly it’s just annoying. Your service isn’t a bank, it doesn’t need to be locked down like one.