Its perfectly acceptable for a security model to make things difficult for extreme edge cases like the pope. After all if the situation warrants it such rare events can always be escalated.
replyTo frame it another way: Better to inconvenience the pope once every few years than have tens of thousands of "little person" account compromises every year.
replyI expect his Holiness might agree.
Yes, there were people here criticizing that but also plenty of people saying it was a reasonable trade off. Making exceptional things harder to make everyday security better is not a bad decision even if it upsets techies who’d like everything to be automated.
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