thbb@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass userEnglish
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1 year agoAt one of my clients, a large institution, they go further: you’re not allowed to use the local browser’s password manager. And still have to abide by the usual password rules: rotate every 3 months, complex passwords, etc.
As a result, users store a plain text file on their desktop (some go as far as printing it), that conveniently allows them to retrieve their passwords.
Too much security kills security.
As commonly said: the product advertises its new AI feature. The job posting of the person who implemented it was ‘data scientist’, and the technique used is called logistic regression.
Well, in this context, it’s more image comparison or some other simple technique not even relying on a training dataset.