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The "email is authentication" pattern

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, Australia. 🌻

As the late Jim Kloss pointed out during one of his broadcasts, we (and probably you) live in a part of the Web with ad blockers (as the FBI recommends), limited JavaScript, password managers, and a (mostly) finely-tuned sense of what is a scam and what is legitimate (that was a lot of brackets). Enough has been written (including here) about the need for password managers, the risks of identity theft, two-factor and multi-factor authentication, and whether the entire concept of a username/password is antiquated and in bad need of replacement. It makes me wonder if we’re looking at a bunch of these issues backwards, and whether we can take advantage of people’s tendencies towards learned behaviour like this.

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