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Most claims about Passkeys are "phishing resistant" not "phishing proof". This scenario is still more "resistant" than passwords: it requires a believable MITM
by WorldMaker 2y ago
Most claims about Passkeys are "phishing resistant" not "phishing proof". This scenario is still more "resistant" than passwords: it requires a believable MITM proxy for a specific website that is also physically in someone's near-area network/personal-area network to pick up intentionally low powered Bluetooth LTE packets, and to click through a login flow that on most of these OSes/browser combos looks decidedly different ("remote login" instead of "real login"). Obviously that's still a threat model to consider, just as one should generally worry about logging into anything on a public Wifi, but the number of "ingredients" to get right on this phish attack is much higher than anything password related, and is much harder to scale (spearphish) because as amusing as it sounds to try to build a fleet of Raspberry Pis to blanket a public space it starts to get physically impractical.
This is a "I'm going to phish a very specific person's wallet in meatspace" attack, not a "I'm going to remotely phish anyone on the internet's wallet".
(It's also an attack we've already got mitigations rolled out in major browsers and more planned.)