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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Now type it a form that doesn’t allow copy and paste.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wdym why? That's how most bank portals are designed. Copy-paste functionality is disabled and you have to type username, password, authentication code

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think my question was clear enough. The comment didn't mention banks, I've never had a bank that did that, and we generally don't try to hide our identities from our banks anyway. My best guess was that they misunderstood how public/private keys work, but since that was only a guess, I asked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tbh ive never had a password box that I can't copy/paste into

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've seen a few. They're super annoying when trying to use a password manager with a decent password.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can't your password manager do autotype? That's what I use mostly, because I don't want all my passwords in my clipboard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Probably. It works >99% of the time I need it so I haven't poked around in the settings too much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A bit of a hacky workaround on Android. Get Keepass2Android, use the included keyboard.

"Paste" whatever via the inbuilt password input functionality. It basically auto types out your passwords. (You protect this behind a master password/and optionally quick accessed by biometrics)

Profit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah... I did this kind of thing before as a password and found that out the hard way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Or even just a paper form.