Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
Some light reading to give some more insight into this situation.
Started thinking along this line before I even managed to open the thread.

This isn't the sort of decision a company makes on a whim. Something forced their hand. It could be temporary while they work on improving or redesigning systems. But it might also take a minute for them to develop any viable means of authentication that don't lead us back here.

This has "orders came in from the higher ups" written all over it.