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I'm so unimpressed with passkeys. It's just like blockchain, trying to solve a poorly defined social and legal problem with pie in the sky 'elegance' and overly
by mystified5016 2y ago
I'm so unimpressed with passkeys. It's just like blockchain, trying to solve a poorly defined social and legal problem with pie in the sky 'elegance' and overly complex technological solutions.
I don't think cryptography is the way to solve phishing. I mean sure it can, clearly. Bitcoin also works as a currency, but it hasn't stopped people scamming and stealing money.
If you're a person wondering if you need passkeys: you need a password manager instead. If you learn some basic safety habits and always trust your password manager, you get almost all the benefits of passkeys with almost none of the downsides.
Passwords— if used responsibly— are fine for 99.9% of what anyone wants or needs. To be responsible with passwords, you just let the computer do it. That's really the problem passkeys solve, just in the most typically obnoxious way.