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Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users by brookst on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:16PM (#42444302)
I'm not sure who these "passkey advocates" are, but are you really positive they are unanimous and completely homogeneous as a group?
Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users by mort96 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:19PM (#42444323)
No group is unanimous and completely homogeneous. But judging by how often the security benefits gets brought up by those in favor of passkeys in these kinds of discussions (including this thread), my impression is that most of its advocates view it as a security benefit. Which means they need to replace passwords, not be an optional extra.
Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users by macrolime on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:38PM (#42445059)
For important sites like your email you'll add multiple passkeys. On less important ones you can just reset which passkey you use to login, using your email, if you lose one of your passkeys.
Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users by mort96 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:20PM (#42446014)
That doesn't help with the posited example of "I lost my phone and need to borrow someone else's computer".
Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users by vel0city on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:19AM (#42451823)
It does. You just use one of your other passkeys, like a hardware token.