• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

    I disagree. Using this book will always lead to shorter passwords that are easier to type. That’s the main weakness imo.

    Or in other words: it really depends what the user fills it with. It should be accompanied by a little machine that spits out random passwords, I’m thinking a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant at the end of the bookmark band.

    • Coffeephilic@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      12 hours ago

      a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant

      I’m imagining a different character on each face of each cubelet, which you would throughly scramble each time for a one-in-whatever-gagillion string? Am I getting that right?

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 day ago

      Not at all. It will lead to easier to type passwords, likely. But that doesn’t mean shorter. This could easily be filled with passwords that are four words long with special characters interspersed.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        11 hours ago

        Which you then have to type out every time. Laziness wins: they will be shorter.

        The assumption is that the product is for non-savvy users. They might not even understand what you wrote up there.

        Autocorrect can help here, but dictionary words are easily brute-forced guessed. And - more importantly - that hypothetical user would have to come up with that idea in the first place. But people who come up with such ideas usually already use password managers anyhow.