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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by barkerja on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:06AM (#33435995)
I kind of feel like this is being done already with Webauthn and Passkeys. Another couple years of user's upgrading/updating devices, and the option to use a passkey may be as ubiquitous as using SMS for MFA.
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Re:Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop imple... by ghaff on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:09AM (#33436052)
It will take a while but I'm hopeful that Passkeys--some variant of which has been being discussed for well over a decade--will finally get mainstream adoption. I'm not convinced tokens ever will at least outside of particularly high value accounts.
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