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3 months agoNice. Meanwhile at the place I work, they have mandated 15+ character passphrases that must have a capital letter and a symbol, that must be changed every 6 weeks, but banned the use of password managers. They also block yubikey and similar hardware tokens from corporate devices at the USB driver level, because “to stop the hackers!”. The only 2nd factor auth they allow is Microsoft Authenticator, and Windows Hello. At least it’s something I suppose.

To be exact, Tim Berners Lee invented the original HTML specification, the HTTP communication protocol, and a proof-of-concept browser that implements both of them. These three things were required - on top of TCP, IP, Ethernets, that already existed - to build the Web.