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Re:FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move Passke... by joshuamorton on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:28AM (#41856486)
> The only thing preventing this with passkeys is the paternalistic idea that users of passkeys should not be allowed to access them directly.

This is, of course, also the thing that makes passkeys uniquely unphishable.

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Re:FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move Passke... by Terr_ on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:08AM (#41856718)
That's like saying a house fire is what makes your deleted files uniquely safe from recovery.

It's uniquely excessive, rather than uniquely capable.

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