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> This makes it impossible to copy and paste your passkey to the wrong person (someone trying to trick you). It also, unfortunately, means it's not possible (v
by lelandbatey 2mo ago
> This makes it impossible to copy and paste your passkey to the wrong person (someone trying to trick you).
It also, unfortunately, means it's not possible (via most passkey implementations) to back those passkeys up to paper. Which is quite unfortunate: backing up to paper is one of the most stable and human accessible ways of ensuring redundancy and continuity, an inevitable but also oft-ignored part of credential management.
Security folks would like to pretend "solving continuity" isn't a problem, or is a problem that doesn't need to be accessible.
- no-name-here 2mo ago> back those passkeys up to paper Is writing down passwords something people do? I have countless passwords saved over >20 years and I don’t think I’ve ever recorded one to paper. I even checked a couple of popular password management solutions and they don’t seem to have “print” functionality.
- cwillu 2mo agoIt is absolutely a thing people do. Google even offers a convenient printout as a way to provide account recovery.
- syntheticnature 2mo agoYes, this is extremely common, both as a continuity means and/or as a localized password manager. Know someone who uses a Rolodex for hers, which is funny and yet it works. Doesn't work well in office environments, but at home the local threat model is largely fine with this.
- malfist 2mo agoThe passphrase to my bitwarden database is in my will. And a bitlocker decryption key is right beside it.
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- tekla 2mo agoIt is what the vast majority of people do.
- NetMageSCW 2mo agoI doubt if that’s true since the vast majority of people no longer have printers. Not even the vast majority of online people.
- Telaneo 2mo agoYes. Old people constantly do it, since they have no hope of remembering 15 passwords. Sometimes, they can barely remember 1 (one). I've written down one: the master password for my Keepass database, along with instructions on how to get to and open that file. It's in a 'open if I'm no longer alive' envelope.
- JohnFen 2mo ago> Is writing down passwords something people do? Yes, it's pretty common.
- 7402 2mo agoYes: Paranoid password printing with a Raspberry Pi https://7402.org/blog/2020/paranoid-password-printing-pi.html