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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    1 year ago

    But it becomes much easier if you want to compromise a specific target individual

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      1 year ago

      No, not really.

      Even if you want to target a specific user, it doesn’t become necessarily easier.

      Unless you happen to target an individual that combines good password OpSec with shitty phone OpSec.

      But I would expect those to be a minority.

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        1 year ago

        Hi, yes, I am that minority

        I have a 37 character password with both cases, numbers and special characters to login to my pw vault using long random strings

        My phone has a swipe pattern lock since that is the safest lock option it allows in the first place. I wish I could lock it better, but the only other options available to me are a 4 character pin, and fingerprints/facial scan. I hope the problems with those are obvious

        Couple that with the fact that I have a daily predictable commute in public transit where I have a habit to put my phone next to me during breakfast and you have a recipe for disaster.