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There's a case for that even if you just have 5 important accounts. If the account matters, give it a long random password.


There's an unfortunate correlation between how long and complex my password is and how I often I have to manually type it in. Microsoft are really good in this regard, and you almost never have to type in your password once you have the Authenticator set up. Google isn't too bad, once you're logged in, but you still sometimes have to type out your password in a situation where having access to your password manager is not convenient. But I find Apple is the worst - I often need to type in my password, and often in situations where I don't have access to my password manager.


IIRC, Treasury.gov makes you enter your password by clicking buttons on a virtual, on-screen keyboard. Ugh.


They finally removed the virtual keyboard.

Do you remember when it was a random layout virtual keyboard? Good times.


Since when? As far as I know they still have the virtual keyboard and it was never random. They used to have a random seed physical card.


May 2 of this year, they posted a notification that the virtual keyboard would be removed the week of May 7 "to improve the customer experience."


They removed it approximately two weeks ago.


Thank god.




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