Re:Passkeys: The Beginning of the End of the Password
by bscphil on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:13AM
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> To put it bluntly: you’re wildly out of touch with reality for most people. 99% of people who have a phone
I don't think 99% of people who have a phone have any kind of extensively worked out plan for what happens if their phone is lost, stolen, or breaks. If we're lucky the number is more like 50%. For most intents and purposes, irrevocably losing access to a phone is equivalent to bricking it in the way OP talks about. Any passkey-esque system needs to have a fallback plan when the phone unexpectedly becomes unavailable.
I don't think 99% of people who have a phone have any kind of extensively worked out plan for what happens if their phone is lost, stolen, or breaks. If we're lucky the number is more like 50%. For most intents and purposes, irrevocably losing access to a phone is equivalent to bricking it in the way OP talks about. Any passkey-esque system needs to have a fallback plan when the phone unexpectedly becomes unavailable.