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Re:What Happened to Running What You Wanted on Your Own Mach... by donmcronald on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:28PM (#45722914)
I think passkeys will be used against users. They’ll be used to attest to a user’s trustworthiness by tying authentication back to a real identity. Like another comment mentioned, you’ll end up needing something like a phone that’s locked down. Part of that will be authenticating with a verified ID IMO.

It’ll be incredibly easy to lock dissenters out of modern society. It’s too bad the vast majority of users will happily concede autonomy for a tiny bit of short term convenience.

Re:What Happened to Running What You Wanted on Your Own Mach... by rcxdude on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:44PM (#45723165)
I expect there will be backlash from non-technical users due to issues like the comment below where the passkey pushers fail to communicate where the keys are stored and thus users unexpectedly lose access to them.