All your $5 wrenches are belong to me. Director of Identity Standards @ MSFT. Paranoid Optimist. (she/)Her opinions. See #ViewFromtheWindowSeat
Sep 21, 2021 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Did you know that even if you always use FIDO security keys or an authenticator app to login, an attacker can still target the password you forgot you had? Reasons why you might choose to delete your
password (a thread)
2/ Transparency: I am an identity geek at Microsoft and we now support password deletion for our consumer accounts: microsoft.com/security/blog/…. This is my attempt to outline *why* this kind of feature is important, here we go…