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ryanseys | 5 years ago

Then break the legion of builds in the name of security.

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hn_throwaway_99|5 years ago

That seems along the lines of "I can just turn off the ability to log in to prevent account hacking!" level of security thinking.

thw0rted|5 years ago

If your choices are "disable all logins" or "anybody can log into my bank account and make whatever transfers they want", the correct choice is the former. (Obviously I would prefer a third option, where the company actually fixed the login bug sometime during the 104-day lead-up, but that's not the point.)

wbl|5 years ago

For some accounts you do exactly that if you have to.

Robin_Message|5 years ago

What if we could have both, just by sending an email? Hit compose underlying!