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> And the way to address this problem is to put all of your sensitive stuff into one third party whom we trust more, for purposes of our conversation we can just call them "the monopolist".

You're missing the point. Giving out your password to a number of sites is as secure as the least secure of those sites. Giving it to a single third party still poses its problems, but is a much safer bet statistically.



I read it as if he's proposing a unique "key" to every "door", kind of like the real world, except you get to create your own "keys" (passwords).




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