Password Security, Forevermore

Passwords suck. But there will never be a better non-niche solution.

There ought to be a word – there probably is a word – to describe concepts and ideas which work great in theory, have major flaws in practice, and for which either there exists no viable alternative, or any of the alternatives that have been tried have proven much worse.

This word would describe, for instance democratic government, or value added tax, or any single form of voting. It would equally well describe password security.

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