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dilyevskyyesterday at 10:40 PM3 repliesview on HN

So what happened exactly? Did Kurt enter his twitter password manually after clicking on that phishing link? Did he not get his sus detector going off after the password manager didn't suggest the password?


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smsm42yesterday at 11:08 PM

Unfortunately, this does not work. I see no end of banks, financial institutions, let alone random companies, who keep their authentication, for some reason, on different domain than main company, and sometimes they would have initial registration (which gets recorded in password manager) on one domain, and consequent logins on another, and sometimes it depends on how you arrived at the site, or which integration are you planning to use, etc. I wish there were a rule "one company - one auth domain" but it's just not true.

Example: Citi bank has citibankonline.com, citi.com, citidirect.com, citientertainment.com, etc. Would you be suspicious of a link to citibankdirect.com? Would you check the certificate for each link going there, and trace it down, or just assume Citi is up to their shenanigans again and paste the password manually? It's jungle out there.

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stavrosyesterday at 10:43 PM

That happened to me as well, I put it down to "fucking password manager, it's broken again".

For example, BitWarden has spent the past month refusing to auto fill fields for me. Bugs are really not uncommon at all, I'd think my password manager is broken before I thought I'm getting phished (which is exactly how they get you).

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otterleyyesterday at 10:49 PM

Yes, that's exactly what happened. The nature of panic is that it overrides people's better judgment.