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Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron C. de Bruyn)
Wed Jun 20 18:06:18 2012

In-Reply-To: <20120620214405.GT15236@h.detebe.org>
From: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:05:17 -0700
To: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Elmar K. Bins <elmi@4ever.de> wrote:
> (Fight of the Leos...)
>
> bicknell@ufp.org (Leo Bicknell) wrote:
>
>> Users would find it much more convenient and wonder why we ever used
>> passwords, I think...
>
> Yeah cool. Shame I have three accounts on peerindb.com alone...

You're right.  Multiple accounts is unpossible in every way except
prompting for usernames and passwords in the way we do it now.
The whole ssh-having-multiple-identities thing is a concept that could
never be applied in the browser in any sort of user-friendly way.
</sarcasm>

-A


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