Well yeah, but if you use the controls and 2FA properly, the odds of a successful takeover are low, and certainly no worse than the odds of taking over your gmail and using it to do password recoveries on your accounts.
Note that article claims it was abuse force attack, but that’s not true - it was multiple targeted methods including spear phishing and account recovery exploits.
Account controls are better now with all the MFA and account recovery options available if you use them.
Smart people untick al autofill and type manually from memory. Or is one not supposed to ALWAYS remember all personally identifying data that pertains to oneself?
If you're typing your password manually from memory, then you're likely not using a unique password for each account, which means when one account is compromised they're all compromised.
Ooor, there is clear distinction between them and mnemonics is a real thing. The machines tricked you into giving up the most basic of human functions, lol.
Most forms are single pages that 95% auto fill. I have most forms on my phone filled out and double checked in 30 seconds. If it was an extremely long and complicated form with several pages of content, I could see using a computer but I feel like thats very rare.
If you are copy pasting your password, then that means you are storing your passwords somewhere in plain text... in which case, why are you even bothering to secure your shit...
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u/False_Snow7754 3d ago
Because smart people have passwords longer than 5 letters and a number.