Steve Petrie via talk wrote on 2024-01-16 05:41:

Ahhhh. SSO (single sign on) -- Is it an SSO offer, when my Firefox browser "helpfully" asks me if I would like it [my browser] to "remember" my login credentials ??

 

[rb]
No, SSO where one signs in to a site they've never visited via their Google or GitHub account, for example.

[sp]

I always respond in the NEGATIVE to these "helpful"  browser offers.

So, you type in user and password every time you log into every site?

I can't imagine the internet being very useful in that case, but everyone's got different risk tolerances, plus I may be misunderstanding your method of logging in to sites.

 

[sp]
No. You're not misunderstanding me.

 

I obsessively type in my userid and super-long obsessively randomized password EVERY TIME I sign on my Firefox browser to my webmail service. In fact, I type in EVERYWHERE a super-long obsessively randomized password, EVERYWHERE A PASSWORD IS REQUIRED.

 

(This absurdly over-the-top hyper-anal security-obsessive behaviour, is likely a happy combination of: (1) innate masochism, smoothly blended with (2) a tight-assed White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) obsessive detail-orientation, (3) sweetly encapsulated with the vestiges of an engineering education.

 

The ridiculously obsessive webmail sign on, has become so habitual, it only takes me a few seconds, because I have perfectly memorized my very long and obsessively randomized password.

 

Every such keyboard-laborious sign on, gives me a tiny thrill of pleasure, in knowing that my very long and obsessively randomized password is extremely spoof-proof.

 

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[rb]
I guess I don't understand how having one's browser save username and (hopefully long) password combos gets "scare quotes" around "helpful".

[sp]
Kindly forgive my lack of mailing list etiquette knowledge. I didn't know that use of scare quotes conveyed such implications. My use of scare quotes was merely for emphasis. Hopefully, a use of bolding instead of scare quotes will improve my list etiquette skill rating :)

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