7 pointsby mooreds6 hours ago2 comments
  • f30e3dfed1c95 hours ago
    I've been avoiding them and intend to keep doing so as long as possible. I've had passwords handled perfectly well for almost 20 years. I do not see passkeys as having any particular benefits to me and do not want to manage them.
  • chrisjj6 hours ago
    > having people enter a password to log in is a dying authorization flow - it’s too easy to crack databases, ... passkey ties it to your device

    Your portable nickable device, right?

    I'll rather a password tied to my brain, thanks.

    • f30e3dfed1c95 hours ago
      Exactly. "Passkey ties it to your device" sounds like a huge step backwards to me. Tech companies seem to have no idea how much I hate my phone.
      • f30e3dfed1c94 hours ago
        FWIW, I had a conversation with an AI about passkeys. Seems to me like there are real potential benefits to (1) companies that implement them, (2) people with bad password practices, and (3) people who use one or two devices, like a laptop and a phone, or a tablet and phone.

        I suspect the lion's share of benefits here go to (1) and I could not possibly care less about that.

        I recognize that (2) is a huge group of people, but I'm not in it.

        For people in (3), it might work pretty well especially if both are from the same company. For example, if you only ever use an iPad and an iPhone, passkeys might work out pretty well. But I'm not in that group, either.

        I'm gonna keep ignoring them as long as possible.