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Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won't work on another device.

Now I don't know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it's really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didn't have one, I just disliked the idea of having all that's needed for auth in a single device which can be lost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the civil discussion. While my views haven't changed I have learned a lot about possible objections from informed people.

Let's hope this new auth standard is implemented responsibly by all the major parties and that weak passwords and phishing become relics of the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hope is all we can have. Sadly time and time again there were companies who thought the were smarter than others and altered established protocols. Be it Telegram or OAuth with Facebook. But let us hope.