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Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:39:28 -0000 (UTC)
> Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>> On 2024-01-30, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> > This is really a rant - venting to release some of the frustration.
>> >
>> > I'm in the process of selling my house, and I need somewhere secure to 
>> > hold the proceeds. I decided I'd create a account with a bank I don't 
>> > otherwise bank with, and interact online with it using a live-DVD on a 
>> > system that has no storage. So no risk of key loggers or other hacks. 
>> > I'd remember the strong password, and not have it written down anywhere.
>> 
>> Until you don't remember it, then what?
>> 
>> Because let's face it, eventually we all forget the password.
>
> That's a very presumptuous thing to say. I have my own ways of storing and
> retrieving passwords (which may include just my memory) and I'm confident
> they are secure and reliable enough. So don't include me in your "we".
>
> I share Sylvia's frustration and it's not just with banks.

I share Sylvia's frustration as well.  It's not just with banks.  Things
are become ever more centralized.  Centralization designs products and
services to the average customer and business invest in shaping people
so that if fits their business model.  Along with that new cultural
values appear.  People seem a lot less interested in serving people.  We
have to fit in with the system now.  People who keep their individuality
are nuisance to the system.

I wonder what happens in the limiting case.

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