Last time I was in Thailand and my buddy told me don't worry, she's not a trap.
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so whats a passkey and how is it different from a password?
That passkeys are a trap article also has straight up one of the best explanations what passkeys are https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
A passkey is cryptographically signed by the server when it's created.
So it does not only has your credentials encrypted which are then used to login to a server, but it also carries information about the server and only that server can request the credentials from the passkey. So unlike a password a passkey is resistent to phishing attempts as you can't actually give your credentials away to anyone but the actual server it was created for.
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Or "Like all questions of security vs convenience, a user should decide what they are or are not comfortable with."
Passkeys are a good idea to prevent phishing. Using passkeys but then require a second method to login as a backup to prevent lockout when you lose your key (as many sites do) is epic bullshit. It makes an actual security improvement into some convenience feature so people don't need to remember/type passwords anymore. Because the phishing will now ask for the alternative/recovery login to fix some alleged problem with your account/passkey...
So it suddenly does not provide additional security anymore above what a password manager would already do.
When you sell somehting as a security feature then instantly defeat the additional security to make it just about convenience the question about the actual goal feels natural...
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Again with this?
I'm going to do the smart thing, get drunk and pass that key to a designated driver and let him figure it out.
the duality of passkeys
No duality: only suck
Seems like if you want something to be able to be unlocked, you'll need a key.
It's the typical case of perfect being the enemy of good.
Passkeys.. how to make the public still not understand mutual TLS...
If you read the pro article you can tell its a bunch of hogwash as they don't understand Tue point of passkeys.
The person that wrote the anti article thinks that 2fa is a form of password… they’re the one that doesn’t understand passkeys.