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baby_souffletoday at 3:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

> And no one in the security business seems to consider the overall burden of yet another step. Each of which is simple in by itself, but cumulatively they are a giant hassle, and so people look for workarounds.

This is a tale as old as time. At a prior gig, IT took away touch ID for ... $reasons. ~40% of the engineering team was already big into mechanical keyboards so it only took one person to "just FYI, VIA allows you to program macros". Is it _as bad_ as password on a sticky note? Not quite but I can't imagine that touch ID was _more_ of a threat.


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sam_lowry_today at 3:54 PM

A big use case for Yubikeys is the ability to emulate a keyboard and produce a string of chars on touch.

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JasperNoboxdevtoday at 4:01 PM

Curious, why remove Touch ID? Been moving everything into it seems like a really good mix of convenience + security (especially if the alternative is copying your key into AI :) )