Julia Evans on Nostr: these SSH polls are reminding me that (though I'm not a security person) I'm a big ...
these SSH polls are reminding me that (though I'm not a security person) I'm a big believer that security systems should allow users to be inattentive and lazy and confused and to do the thing that seems the most convenient instead of the the thing that might be the most secure, and to still enable good security
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2026-08-13 15:37:05 UTCEvent JSON
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