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Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use passkeys. You’re telling me it’s just a thing... that lives on my phone? What if I lose my phone? What if you steal my phone?

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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The way I intend to handle this is with my keypass password manager since the file database has to be synced manually. The way I handle this is one copy of the database lives on my phone, which is my primary device. Then I copy this database to a flash drive, and then copy it to my laptop. The update process goes something like update the credential on my phone and then a few months later, during my scheduled backup routine, copy the database to the flash drive and then copy the database over to the laptop. So the most I could lose is a few months worth of data instead of all of it. If my phone is ever stolen, I still have a copy of the database on both the flash drive and the laptop, which at most might be a few months out of date, but nothing severe.

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[–] 0nekoneko7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

People are making things more complicated than they already are. I simply keep my passwords and passphrases inside my memory.

P.S. My password is not 'Password123456'

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[–] fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

Vendors will use passkey implementations as vectors for lock-in. Guaranteed. Workplaces need to accept BYO.

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