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Sorry, but I don't think you do understand correctly, and I mean that in an honest and non-judgemental way, I think you may have misunderstood what Passkeys are
by danpalmer 4y ago
Sorry, but I don't think you do understand correctly, and I mean that in an honest and non-judgemental way, I think you may have misunderstood what Passkeys are, and what this announcement is.
With this announcement, you can log into a Google account with a Passkey. That Passkey could be generated by anything implementing the spec – an iPhone, a browser, a home-grown Python script, whatever you want.
Google can still lock you out of your Google account whether you use a Passkey or not. If you use your Google account to sign in to other sites, Google can also therefore still prevent you from logging into those other sites, as they have been able to do before (I don't know if they do this as a matter of policy, but they theoretically can).
Passkeys do not change this.
The only potential place that Passkeys might change things is if you use a Passkey generated by a Google technology, like Android or Chrome. You could use those Passkeys for logging into anything, not just Google accounts. As these are tied to a device, I don't believe the Google account on that device affects them in any way. Google can't lock you out of your Android phone, and can't prevent you using Chrome, so can't prevent you using Passkeys in either of those systems.
- eduction 4y ago[flagged]
- sowbug 4y agoWho are you yelling at? Passkeys are a FIDO thing. Everyone who has implemented them uses the same name. Apple calls them passkeys. Microsoft calls them passkeys. PayPal calls them passkeys. But if you're mad because Google also calls them passkeys, then... OK. (I'm also having trouble squaring "extremely security savvy" with the question whether a security key is a passkey... but OK.)
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- danpalmer 4y agoI'm sorry you don't appear to be interested in engaging with the topic. Even a cursory look would reveal that this is a new open standard spearheaded by a cross-industry group. I'm hoping Passkeys do indeed take off as they provide better security for pretty much everyone, and if they do your service providers will most likely adopt them.