"Login with your Address"
- Insert address
- Letter is send
- Introduce code from the letter to authenticate
Who will implement this?
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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My government does this actually.
Yes, and banks when you wanna activate online banking. Arguably, then it's just for registering, and logging in then works differently.
Governments and banks love this, but I've even seen it with phone companies with e-sims. I quickly needed a new phone subscription, so I considered an e-sim, because I figured you could activate it by scanning the QR code from the screen. But no, they will mail me a piece of plastic with the QR code on it. So I went with a regular sim instead.
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My government sorta did this before... *thuder crack* DIGITAL ID!
Probably Italy. All institutions and many households still have a working but unused fax line in Italy (which most photocopiers still support). Many documents can only be transferred either in person or by fax.
We are not savages, we have low cost multi-gigabit optic-fiber household connections available in the majority of cities. Our bureaucracy is just anachronistic.
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Ahahah ah. Germany sends its regards.
OMG Verizon.
I JUST saw this yesterday when resetting my password.
I expect they just mail you a temporary password with 2FA turned off.
I'm currently waiting on two separate authentication codes in the mail so the answer is, it's already implemented quite often.
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Login with your mom lmao
I still can’t find my dad…
Have you tried the "recover my dad" form?
There's the option to login with caution, but what if I want to login with reckless abandon?
Choose any one of the other ones tbh.
Log in with 23andme.
To authenticate, you need an actual pin.
Fucking systemd and their dna fields
Yeah DNA sample was what I was gonna suggest
Yes, you did: OpenID.
I remember when I first read about it (late 2000s? not sure when), I thought it was an awesome idea and surely the web of the future would be full of "log in with OpenID" buttons.
Instead it is now full of "log in with Google", "log in with Facebook", "log in with Microsoft" buttons.
It is just a framework. OpenID en OIDC are probably used by those companies to federate user access.
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Login with your mom 🤣
I'm a big fan of "Login with a potato" lol
I'm digging 'login with caution.' I like to think it's mostly the same generic login page but with 'Warning: you are logging into site X. This will involve the use of your sensitive login credentials. Take precautions against their loss or theft.' and yellow/black hazard tape borders on every div.
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PID - ~~personal~~ Potato ID
Login with systemd
Only if you’re 18. ;)
Login with Calculator: For when you don't remember your PIN but you remember how you came up with it
Creating a pin with the number pad then having to remember it with a normal keyboard... 🫠
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What PDF should I use to log in?
yes
It's key-based client authentication. Just open your SSH key's .pub file in Microsoft Publisher, then export to PDF.
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Log in with your local Linux account
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Log in as administrator
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Log in via carrier pigeon
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Psychic log in
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Log in using public shared account (that anyone and everyone can log into and use)
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Log in your pets
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Log in via Hallmark greeting card (only available on your birthday or major holidays)
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Log in with blood sacrifice
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Login with a log in an inn.
Login with my constant back pain level.
(You enter your value on a scale from 1 to 10.)
Login with a dB reader of the sound my knees make under no particular strain.
Verification can?
FetLife obviously
Login with sudo
“Login with Calculator” - No, no, no. Everybody knows that that option is just for the alarm clock.
Form 137? No, you have to go to hall 17b for 137, this is hall 17a, hall 17b is 2 floors up in the other building!
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Some dudes with oldstyle websites from web 1.0 times actually keep doing this. A friend of mine has a login with dog chip on his website among dozens of other options.
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