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> who the heck would carry a USB key with them?? > but with this, synced to your password manager of choice, that's A LOT better While I agree with your gener
by vladvasiliu 3y ago
> who the heck would carry a USB key with them??
> but with this, synced to your password manager of choice, that's A LOT better
While I agree with your general point that passkeys are great, I strongly disagree with these specific points. It's much easier for me to carry a small usb-key everywhere than it is to carry a big-ass phone (I often leave it at home) or my own computer.
With a yubikey on my keychain, I can log into my company's AzureAD from any computer. In a pinch, this also works on a phone if it has an NFC reader. It used to work fine on my iphone 7.
Another use case is specifically not wanting anything company-related on my own computing device. My personal phone isn't enrolled in the company's AzureAD, I don't have their 1passwork vault there, etc.
- francislavoie 3y agoI'm talking about the "personal use" usecase and not the professional/business usecase. I agree with the value of security keys as being a physical token with low/no risk of leaking. But for personal use there's no way I can make that work for me day-to-day, even less of a chance I could get my parents bought-in on that idea. And I've tried, as someone who actually developed software to interface with this tech directly. I always have my phone with me, but if not, I can always login to my cloud-synced password manager in a pinch. (Worth mentioning, I don't have the same paranoia as some regarding cloud-synced vaults when done right, big reason I left that aforementioned company).