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Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users by lxgr on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:39PM (#42445073)
> They are security theater

Passkeys are highly secure compared to passwords. All problems I know of (and there are quite a few!) revolve around availability, not security.

All problems you do write about after this are indeed related to availability, but then you shouldn't call them "security theater".

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Re:Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users by christina97 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:50PM (#42445187)
The argument is that service providers will not accept the reduced availability and so will deviate from the pure passkey way into some patchwork of security theater.
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