Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device.

Now I don’t know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it’s really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

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    2 years ago

    That’s why they invented chargers, eh.

    But more seriously, there are recovery procedures if you lose a phone with or without a backup and if you are willing to share the keys with a cloud provider, you can also store them there and use them on any of your devices.

    Or you can get something like a yubikey if the battery aspect is really that problematic for you.

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      2 years ago

      The fact is that I fail to see something obviously wrong with outrageously long/complicated passwords managed by e.g. Bitwarden or the likes.

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        2 years ago

        Bitwarden is also supporting passkeys, so it won’t make a difference for their users whether they use passwords or passkeys.

        And the fact that you don’t see anything wrong is more a you problem. Boomer mentality, dude. Don’t became one.

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          2 years ago

          It would probably be better for you to explain what’s wrong and not just call them a boomer as if that explains it.