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> Well you just lost me. You are developing IAM components and you can't get basic password management correct? email has nothing to do with it, we are well past the point where password managers are de rigueur, certainly for anyone involved with security matters.

The password in my password manager is not correct. No idea how that happened, maybe it was overwritten by accident or I copied the wrong one during account creation. Since I had to reset my FF profile it was no longer stored in the FF password manager, so I had to recover it from KeePass, which well - didn't work out so well. Since I do use a password manager, it's impossible to recover it as I have no idea what the password is.

A bit extreme don't you think ? He's human and people lose access to old accounts from time to time...

Has nothing to do with the fact he's developing auth software.

Besides, HN does not do oauth. If it did and he would still lose access then it's a different story ;-)

Getting the wrong password in your password manager happens occasionally. Usually from password resets that somehow don't make it into your password manager. The fact that HN allows accounts without email addresses is the real problem. Also, maybe he just doesn't value his HN account all that much.