I feel like there's a population of crypto and crypto-adjacent tech people who legitimately don't understand why a long, hard-to-guess string that is stored and shared in cleartext is very different from a password and cannot be substituted for one. I feel like a bunch of these folks don't understand why.
I'm not going to name and shame but I'm in the midst of a conversation on this, which is why it's top of mind.
#tech #dev #crypto #security #cybersecurity #InfoSec
Anthony
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2026-03-24 14:51:16 UTC
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