Well, until we learn that there is a backdoor in their implementation, allowing any big actor to swoop in and either crack the crypto easily, have access to an unencrypted copy, or steal the passphrase.
Then we just have put all the things in the same basket for the convenience of mass spying, like we did with https, which any entity big enough can MITM by using their root certificates.
I introduced several times password managers to my friends and family, and more often than not, it was a disaster.
Because eventually, either they set a very simple master password they reused elsewhere, defeating the entire purpose of the whole exercise, or they lost the master password.
The latter meant they lost a lot of accesses (unless they have backup discipline, which of course they can't have by nature) because there is no recovery.
So the alternative was for me to hold the backup passwords or recovery passphrase/seed. So much for making them independent.
Bottom lines: security sucks and ergonomics sucks because most users are not tech saavy enough to handle complicated cases.
Making E2EE even an option is nice, and the best you can do for now.
The threat model for every lambda user having a password manager does not cover breaking and entering[0]: they should write down their master password and keep it at home in their bedroom drawer.
Use biometrics where possible (e.g. bitwarden on Android has that option)
[0] maybe it does for you, working on some DoD-confidential docs, but your computer-illiterate aunt doesn't.
As for bio-metrics they are not possible on all devices, and some software will require you to enter the master password once in a while even if it's activated.
But even if it was not the case, if you loose your device, you need to setup the new one, and for that, you need the master password or have backups.
I've given some family members small paper pads and encouraged them to write down important passwords, and keep them in their home office. This way they can at least have a chance with semi-reasonable unique passwords, vs falling back to using the same trivial password for everything, and still needing to reset it twice a year ...
For the few keys I need to remember (external drive bitlocker key, windows password, etc) I do reuse a few passwords but I used passwords that have never been used on the internet, so I should be preventing the password reuse risk from breaches. Is there something I’m missing in this strategy?
The way I've done it with close family is that I kept a copy of their master password in my own vault (or the shared family one) to remind them when they inevitably forgot.
It's not ideal, but it's better than the alternative of them reusing extremely easy to guess passwords.
Yes, and that really hurt the audience more than John Wick.
After that, they were no stakes anymore, because you knew anything could go and it would not matter.
Case in point: in the first (second?) movie, he get stabbed once, and it changes the whole rhythm of the film. You are thinking "oh shit, now everything he does will have to be performed with this wound". And the story matches that, his moves are not the same. He has to overcome this problem, and there is a lot of suffering. It makes you care such much about him.
In the latest one, he gets hit by 3 cars and you go "meh".
I did enjoy JW4, but not remotely as much as the first one, where we were counting bullets and it matched the known gun capacity.
Now it's just another dumb action block buster, albeit a superb one.
It's the tragedy of the common because most viewers will be happy with the DBZ effect taking over. So it's a commercial success. But it has lost part of what made the concept special.
People will remember the feeling of seeing JW1 forever, it set a standard. We compare things to it in the same way we compared things to the Terminator, Alien or the Matrix (twice Keanu? Really?).
He gets injured repeatedly, badly, in the 4th movie and it absolutely affects how he fights over the course of the movie.
It's one of the best parts about the series: the protagonist isn't invincible, he's just very good. But when he gets hurt, he actually gets hurt and needs to recover from those injuries (or take drugs to cover the pain).
Edit: it seems a lot of people commenting on the invincibility of John Wick did not actually watch the 4th movie. Spoiler alert: by the final showdown, he's barely conscious and keeps going despite his accumulated injuries solely due to sheer force of will, and ultimately dies of his injuries.
The guys falls from one story, flat on the concrete floor, gets hit by multiple cars, and absorbs the kinetic energy of dozens of bullets, and yet can still climb stairs and fight at the same time.
It's a movie. It's not going to be 100% realistic. That being said...
He's wearing a suit that is designed to absorb and dissipate kinetic energy. It makes sense that it would help dissipate the kinetic energy of landing on concrete and getting hit by cars.
If you paid attention you noticed that after these impacts, he was significantly slower as a result of the injuries, and was less capable after than he was before. By the final showdown, he's literally struggling to stand, multiple bones are bruised or broken, and he keeps going by sheer force of will.
He is wolverine in JW4.
Literally, no, if you saw the movie all the way to the end. (Spoiler alert: JW dies from his accumulated injuries.)
You can use the product without the key indefinitely. But every 10 times you save, it shows a prompt for buying the software.
Not even intrusive, you can discard it easily, and be productive for months.
But after months of reading that you don't pay, the guilt sets in. After all, you have been enjoying the product, since you have been using it for months.
Not to mention the internet moves so fast you can become illiterate again.
I bet most internet users have never tried VR, crypto currencies or ChatGPT yet. Some new things will come. Some will even stick for the long run. And inertia means illiteracy will rise.
No to mentions as the old people die, new kids are born in countries were internet is not widespread yet.
After all, some parts of the world still don't have electricity.
> I bet most internet users have never tried VR, crypto currencies or ChatGPT yet.
I’ve tried none of those things and I’ve been on the internet since the last century.
Don’t feel like I’m missing out just like I don’t miss trying to figure out how to do anything useful with gopher over some crazy convoluted connection that required a 20 page pamphlet to set up.
What I try to remember though is I felt that way about everything, initially:) . My wife didn't miss or need a second monitor for our first five years together - and then she finally tried it and she cannot imagine living without one now. She fought me on Netflix as cable already had so many channels she didn't need anything more (same results once she tried it:) . I fought my best friend on vr for 2 years until he practically locked me in his basement and stuck oculus on my head and now I feel stupid for not trying sabre beat or boxing apps sooner :).
Not everything will work that way. But "I don't currently need" is not always a good / sufficient dismissal of something new.
To the original point - I do not have crypto tiktok discord tor snapchat etc... And may indeed be considered illiterate to some, even though I too have been on them intertubes for 3 decades and make my living in IT:). It was a point of pride for people I knew in 90s and 2000s to not have tried interwebs.
(I've tried chatgpt though and find it massively useful for learning!)
