I wouldn't be surprised if big tech has a hand in it. There's a need to improve reputation and trust online and I think big tech is planning to use their new p

I wouldn't be surprised if big tech has a hand in it. There's a need to improve reputation and trust online and I think big tech is planning to use their new passwordless systems to marry identity and trust in a way that will make them the arbiters of identity and trustworthiness via attestation. It'll start with having no passwords to remember, but before you know it parts of the internet will quit working if you don't have a big tech company vouching for you (not a bot, is an adult, etc.). As long as you log in with your Microsoft/Google/Apple account everything will be great, but if you don't nothing will work. Non-tech people will be easily convinced with claims that logging in everywhere ensures bots and bad actors are excluded while "good" users can surf anywhere without hitting captchas, etc..