Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by mpalmer on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:53PM (#49012460)

    it's one password to everything

You are entirely mistaken. Passkeys involve a third party storing a public key on their infrastructure, while you hold the private half of the key, somewhere.

Passkeys are never reused. Even for the same person, they are always unique across websites, and across devices.

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Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understandi... by selicos on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:36PM (#49187047)

and to unlock that passkey on my PC uses... my user account password. So now every passkey on my device has a single password.

and I can't use this on any other device by default. My passkey is locked within the browser used to set it up.

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