First time I’m hearing about this, can you give any links? Maybe we could use something similar in lemmy

idk anything about german literature, i’m russian :( but when i was small i really liked the books momo and neverending story

It’s only used as a one time account verification thing, not a 2fa second factor. Still not great but at least not a security flaw.

Why don’t we replace it with something else that does the same?

This, it is our duty as people with good taste in media to promote better and less popular books to children. Earthsea by leguin, his dark materials by Pullman etc. hundreds of better books out there filling the same niche