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Locke1689 on Feb 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Quora vs. StackExchange: Why, Joel, Why?

To a certain extent, security will always have to make the user think. There's simply no way around that without complete service dictation.

chc on Feb 21, 2011 [–]

Yes, but Stack Overflow's signup screen takes more thinking than most sites (by virtue of being different, not to mention its complexity). Amazon's signup is far simpler and it does not seem to be terribly insecure.

Locke1689 on Feb 21, 2011 | [–]

Actually if you have an older Amazon account it was shown to be pretty terribly insecure.

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