I get that a youtuber you like talked about this. Youtubers talk about a lot of stupid products in the interest of making Content. But maybe listen to the people who have experience with this kind of hardware and the kind of security theatre policies that make them “a good idea”.

I think you might be confused. I’m not saying these devices are good. I started the post by asking if people thought they were a novelty. I just don’t think it’s as black and white as you are making it out to be and we got off on a tangent about passwords.

I think often enough people have a few numbers memorized that they can use and a lot of the time they’re going to be too obscure to social engineer. I don’t think you could do some CSI Miami style deduction to easily find out a passcode that’s over ten digits in length.

I will admit you could probably brute force it and it’s going to take less time than an alpha numeric password.