Probably a 200 GB download too.

You are implying that any data gathered will be delivered to the government upon request (unsure if you are implying with or without a warrant). If you can show me from this article, or even this case, regarding this privacy case that that happened, then yes I agree with you and the fourth amendment applies.

But this issue is between private entities which generally precludes amendments from being applicable. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the infotainment systems collected and stored personal data without consent and violated Washington’s Privacy Act.

The “unlawful search and seizure” amendment? Why would that apply here?

Next up, mute detection…

I’m in IT security and I’m fighting this battle. I want to lessen the burden of passwords and arbitrary rotation is terrible.

I’ve ran into a number of issues at my company that would give me the approval to reduce the frequency of expired passwords

• the company gets asked this question by other customers “do you have a password policy for your staff?” (that somehow includes an expiration frequency).

• on-prem AD password complexity has some nice parts built in vs some terrible parts with no granularity. It’s a single check box in gpo that does way too much stuff. I’m also not going to write a custom password policy because I don’t have the skill set to do it correctly when we’re talking about AD, that’s nightmare inducing. (Looking at specops to help and already using Azure AD password protection in passive mode)

• I think management is worried that a phishing event happens on a person with a static password and then unfairly conflating that to my argument of “can we just do two things: increase password length by 2 and decrease expiration frequency by 30 days”

At the end of the day, some of us in IT security want to do the right things based in common sense but we get stymied by management decisions and precedence. Hell, I’ve brought NIST 800-63B documentation with me to check every reason why they wouldn’t budge. It’s just ingrained in them - meanwhile you look at the number of tickets for password help and password sharing violations that get reported … /Sigh

RDC could be a good option to uninstall for businesses where the machine acts as a terminal and you don’t want those devices launching RDC to begin with Not sure why it hasn’t been allowed already.

Paginated login

Microsoft enabled it in ADFS on WS 2019. I know there are plenty other places it’s used, but It’s the example I’m most familiar with.

There can be a security element to it depending on how the server handles paginated auth as it separates the password field away from the user ID. You can also interject the second factor first before the password to protect brute forcing.

But the larger reason I’ve read is that it’s easier for end users to use. Here’s MS talking about it with ADFS.

“Instead of a long form to fill out, a new flow takes you through the sign-in experience step-by-step. Our research shows that with this approach, our customers have more successful sign-ins.”

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/operations/ad-fs-paginated-sign-in

Whether this is true or not is debatable. I’d love to see passwords die out. I doubt I’ll see that in my lifetime though.