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Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords
Tom Scott
Tom Scott performs a fictional story at GeekyConf about the day Google accidentally stops checking passwords, letting anyone into any account. It works as a parable about how a single point of failure in login can unravel everything built on it.
HN commenters cite it as the canonical thought experiment whenever authentication failures, account compromises or Google outages come up.
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