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23andMe agrees to $30M settlement for breach lawsuit
(www.scmagazine.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
passwords were maybe the dumbest idea ever invented
What is your suggestion for a superior solution to the problems passwords solve?
private keys, etc
That's literally just a long password that you can never recover your data from when you inevitably lose or forget it (remember we're talking about the majority of users here who do not use password managers).
there's literally zero technical reason that a user couldn't reset a private key the same as a password. after all, you just pointed out they are almost the same.
edit: if you'd like to see an example create SSH keys for your GitHub account and then reset them