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ghostly_syesterday at 9:16 PM1 replyview on HN

You can decide what appetite for risk you are comfortable with, but some people don't have any better option than logging in to accounts on a public computer. The industry is pushing this system as the new universal answer for authentication, it NEEDS to work in every scenario passwords do.

(...and I’m pretty sure plugging my yubikey into a locked down public terminal is not going to solve this, either.)


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iamnothereyesterday at 10:04 PM

It would let you log in (even though you shouldn’t). Most “locked down” computers still allow things like USB drives and Yubikeys.