Spyke
lemmy.curiana.net

"Login with your Address"

  1. Insert address
  2. Letter is send
  3. Introduce code from the letter to authenticate

Who will implement this?

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Sibboreply
sopuli.xyz

Yes, and banks when you wanna activate online banking. Arguably, then it's just for registering, and logging in then works differently.

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mcvreply
lemmy.zip

Governments and banks love this, but I've even seen it with phone companies with e-sims. I quickly needed a new phone subscription, so I considered an e-sim, because I figured you could activate it by scanning the QR code from the screen. But no, they will mail me a piece of plastic with the QR code on it. So I went with a regular sim instead.

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Sibboreply
sopuli.xyz

I see. Well, I think if you could just scan the code from the screen, that probably would open up all kinds of gateways for scammers. On the other hand, faking a physical address is a bit more expensive.

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I mean, in Canada we can activate esims by scanning a digital qr code, and we have significantly less scam calls than the US does... Because we have much better laws about that sort of thing.

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We had this too but instead of waiting for a letter you just had to go to any post office. It's more practical because there's no waiting

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My government sorta did this before... *thuder crack* DIGITAL ID!

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edinbruhreply
feddit.it

Probably Italy. All institutions and many households still have a working but unused fax line in Italy (which most photocopiers still support). Many documents can only be transferred either in person or by fax.

We are not savages, we have low cost multi-gigabit optic-fiber household connections available in the majority of cities. Our bureaucracy is just anachronistic.

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So many of those fax lines are just email servers in a trench coat in the US though

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lemmy.ml

Can't you just send official stuff via Posta elettronica certificata? I thought that was the point of these sorts of systems

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edinbruhreply
feddit.it

PEC is usually not free (neither is fax, but a landline is more common than PEC). But also, I think it's not accepted everywhere. Maybe you can also use posta raccomandata. But for that you must go to the post office in person and wait in line with other 10 pensioners, and it also costs, so you are probably better off just handing the document in person.

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lemmy.ml

Ah that's a shame, if they made it free (at least for communication with the state) i think it could clear up the fax situation a lot. They did this in my country and it got rid of the faxes

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Sometimes banks give you a PEC address, but it's mostly for communicating with the bank, and you are paying for it as part of the bank's services.

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OMG Verizon.

I JUST saw this yesterday when resetting my password.

I expect they just mail you a temporary password with 2FA turned off.

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Exactly how I heard about the app. They must regularly be searching home purchases because it showed up pretty quickly after I moved in.

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Sirencereply
feddit.org

I'm currently waiting on two separate authentication codes in the mail so the answer is, it's already implemented quite often.

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Sirencereply
feddit.org

One is for registration and one is for login with a new device, although it's technically not even a new device I just uninstalled and then reinstalled the app...

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That's hilarious. I had to do it once in Spain but it was only for registration. After that you verify your phone number and use that.

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It's common for registration. Would be fun to have it for authentication as well. "My session expired. I need 3 days to log in again".

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My healthcare governmental insurance… last time I had to request a password. Took 2 good weeks. Fucking crazy inefficient process for an application that in the end exposes close to zero PII. The juicy stuff is behind another account with 2FA and more.

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orgreply
lemmy.org

I still can’t find my dad…

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lemmy.world

There's the option to login with caution, but what if I want to login with reckless abandon?

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Yes, you did: OpenID.

I remember when I first read about it (late 2000s? not sure when), I thought it was an awesome idea and surely the web of the future would be full of "log in with OpenID" buttons.

Instead it is now full of "log in with Google", "log in with Facebook", "log in with Microsoft" buttons.

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It is just a framework. OpenID en OIDC are probably used by those companies to federate user access.

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You can’t arbitrarily trust any OpenID implementation. I could easily have authelia report that I am schnurrito and the app has no way to confirm that.

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Sunsofoldreply
lemmings.world

I'm digging 'login with caution.' I like to think it's mostly the same generic login page but with 'Warning: you are logging into site X. This will involve the use of your sensitive login credentials. Take precautions against their loss or theft.' and yellow/black hazard tape borders on every div.

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zod000reply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Yeah, I agree with that one. That was actually the first one that caught my eye for the same reason. Something about login with a potato is just hilarious to me for some reason.

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Sunsofoldreply
lemmings.world

A unique identifier potato.

"THIS IS MY POTATO!

THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE IS MINE!"

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lemmy.ca

Login with Calculator: For when you don't remember your PIN but you remember how you came up with it

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Jesusaurusreply
lemmy.world

Creating a pin with the number pad then having to remember it with a normal keyboard... 🫠

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In some languages the base layer of the number row is taken up by weird characters so people prefer the numpad to holding Shift, and laptops without one sell poorly

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Haha I used to do this all the time for my credit card PIN. Every time I had to enter it I had to get out a calculator as I didn't remember the four-digit number but I did remember the expression I used to derive it.

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Epherareply
lemmy.ml

It's key-based client authentication. Just open your SSH key's .pub file in Microsoft Publisher, then export to PDF.

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sopuli.xyz

What about AI?

Log in safely and securely with AI^®^

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pawb.social
  • Log in with your local Linux account

  • Log in as administrator

  • Log in via carrier pigeon

  • Psychic log in

  • Log in using public shared account (that anyone and everyone can log into and use)

  • Log in your pets

  • Log in via Hallmark greeting card (only available on your birthday or major holidays)

  • Log in with blood sacrifice

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I started running out of neighbours so I switched from blood sacrifice to letting my pet carrier pigeon login for me anytime I ask him to do it.

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I recall a YouTuber who used their cats butthole for their fingerprint sensor to unlock their phone. It could be that they wanted to try it but never did, though. It's been like a decade.

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thelemmy.club

Are butthole prints supported by the same system?

I don't have a fingerprint reader ...

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Login with a log in an inn.

Login with my constant back pain level.
(You enter your value on a scale from 1 to 10.)

Login with a dB reader of the sound my knees make under no particular strain.

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piefed.social

Form 137? No, you have to go to hall 17b for 137, this is hall 17a, hall 17b is 2 floors up in the other building!

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“Login with Calculator” - No, no, no. Everybody knows that that option is just for the alarm clock.

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sopuli.xyz

Some dudes with oldstyle websites from web 1.0 times actually keep doing this. A friend of mine has a login with dog chip on his website among dozens of other options.

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orgreply
lemmy.org

Honey, this is web2.0 trash

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Alexanderreply
sopuli.xyz

yeah, the whole point was to make fun of web2 development as it went. Now he has web3 logins too, which are way more awkward than anything before, but, like, work with as few 3rd parties as possible.

The regular login is just password that fetches creds stored in local storage without any cookies. Most of time one wouldn't even notice it, and as secure as CORS/HTTPS (which would screw you if not working properly anyway). Kind of shows what a pile of data-stealing nonsense this all is.

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orgreply

If you’re not on web 4.0, you’re fired

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lemmy.world

Unironically, in the EU with digital IDs it might actually be feasible to do a government ID login.

Sometimes I‘m thinking about hosting a lemmy instance that does that bit would not store your info just to fight the tide of astroturfing.

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Samskarareply
sh.itjust.works

It’s finally getting more widespread use. I‘ve had a machine readable ID with biometrics for two decades before I was able to actually use it for the first time online.

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I was really impressed that I could do my Spanish taxes with my German ID. Other government services don’t support it yet though

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credit card login in my mind: registration by account balance. To be able to login, match your balance to the same amount you had at the time of registration

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I log in by scanning my ass on the office printer. I have a very distinct butthole print.

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guy
piefed.social

So while login with potato is nice, how would you log in with an calculator? Do a math problem?

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You open your calculator app, launch the integrated Microslop Copilot and try to answer the security questions it generates randomly

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