My wife signed up for calm.com using Sign in with Apple. Thanks to this, I am not able to occasionally use her login to listen to the wonderful music. There's just no way in hell I'm paying the $60 a year or whatever they're asking to listen to a couple songs every now and then. In a normal setting, she'd add her login to her 1password and I'd be able to use Calm.com, and who knows, I would've grown to love it, and gotten myself a second subscription.
But since this experience has been so confoundingly annoying, Calm.com won't get a penny from me. (Not even sure I want to blame them... but rather how it's impossible for my wife to just "share" that credential with me even if she wanted to)
Not being able to share a certain type of login (for this kind of family sharing scenario) has really soured me on the more personal use cases for these technologies, even though they are really solid from the tech side.
Like people often say, most products are competing with Word, Excel, and email, authentication is competing with me just being able to tell a human my username and password.
Again, there are many instances where being able to share these credentials seamlessly between non-power users is totally legit. When I sit with my dad to help her log in to his patient portal to get some medical info. Or when my mom wants help to review her Verizon cell phone bill. Or when I get my wife's credentials to cancel a hotel reservation.
How are they going to solve the totally legitimate sharing use cases? Using PKI actually gives you a wonderful set of tools to do this (underlying implementation could be that we generate a temp cert that expires in 24 hours, signed by her original credential certificate saying it's a shared credential, etc)
I really hope these are the use cases that get more fleshed out before these technologies reach mainstream.
But since this experience has been so confoundingly annoying, Calm.com won't get a penny from me. (Not even sure I want to blame them... but rather how it's impossible for my wife to just "share" that credential with me even if she wanted to)
Not being able to share a certain type of login (for this kind of family sharing scenario) has really soured me on the more personal use cases for these technologies, even though they are really solid from the tech side.
Like people often say, most products are competing with Word, Excel, and email, authentication is competing with me just being able to tell a human my username and password.
Again, there are many instances where being able to share these credentials seamlessly between non-power users is totally legit. When I sit with my dad to help her log in to his patient portal to get some medical info. Or when my mom wants help to review her Verizon cell phone bill. Or when I get my wife's credentials to cancel a hotel reservation.
How are they going to solve the totally legitimate sharing use cases? Using PKI actually gives you a wonderful set of tools to do this (underlying implementation could be that we generate a temp cert that expires in 24 hours, signed by her original credential certificate saying it's a shared credential, etc)
I really hope these are the use cases that get more fleshed out before these technologies reach mainstream.