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rtpglast Wednesday at 11:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Isn't this backwards? If the autocomplete doesn't show up that's a flag that the password is going somewhere it doesn't belong. If you're always copy-pasting from a password manager then you're not getting that check "for free".

Obviously SSO-y stuff is _better_, but autofill seems important for helping to prevent this kind of scam. Doesn't prevent everything of course!


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tptaceklast Wednesday at 11:04 PM

None of this password manager configuration stuff matters; we've just got Passkeys set up for the account now, which is what we should have done, but didn't, because we spent the last 2 years with one foot out the door on Twitter altogether.

Since this attack happened despite Kurt using 1Password, I'm really not all that receptive to the idea that 1Password is a good answer to this problem.

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