On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 6:47 AM 🦓 <czybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > my mother is currently struggling to memorize all of my dead stepfather's > identities and passwords and that makes me wonder how would you like an > internet of hosts who store everything undeletably and barrierlessly readably > with no secrets whatsoever to humanity nor any other natural or artificial or > divine intelligence? i know this sounds like a question for debian-devel or > debian-policy but i m dumping it onto debian-user as as of now i m not > subscribed to any other.
For some of the larger sites you can use a YubiKey. YubiKeys use the FIDO/FIDO2 protocols. I believe WebAuthn also supports YubiKeys. But I found a lot of sites do not support FIDO/FIDO2 protocols. For example, most banks and my mother's credit union do not support them. In this case, I send a letter to the company's legal department and put them on notice. (I also point out the problems with their current authentication system). If you start switching to YubiKeys, then be sure to use two of them. The second is a backup YubiKey, and it also gets enrolled when you convert the account. The backup YubiKey is used in case the first YubiKey is lost. Jeff
