Write your passwords down (2010)
It makes me so sad that it&#x27;s 2023 and we haven&#x27;t fixed passwords. There&#x27;s no need for any of this. Your email account (+ multi-factor as desired) will always be the weak link, so just reduce everything to that. Get rid of passwords.<p>Create a new standard that falls back to passwords to work with legacy systems, but going forward will enable a password keepers to just authenticate you with a generated random password saved encrypted to your cookies that the user never even has to see. Then reset it as needed through your email (+ multi-factor as desired) as needed.<p>User-visible passwords should die. Technologists should to get un-stuck from living in the current password paradigm. I&#x27;ve been wanting to make this rant a blog post but haven&#x27;t gotten around to it - esp because I know it&#x27;s been written about a million times already.