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> They are security theater Passkeys are highly secure compared to passwords. All problems I know of (and there are quite a few!) revolve around availability,
by lxgr 2y ago
> They are security theater
Passkeys are highly secure compared to passwords. All problems I know of (and there are quite a few!) revolve around availability, not security.
All problems you do write about after this are indeed related to availability, but then you shouldn't call them "security theater".
- christina97 2y agoThe argument is that service providers will not accept the reduced availability and so will deviate from the pure passkey way into some patchwork of security theater.