PASSKEYS
A passkey is a password that you are not allowed to know. Your phone knows it, but you do not.
Do not use passkeys. Here is why:
This May 2023 article in Ars Technica Google passkeys are a no-brainer. You’ve turned them on, right? by Dan Goodin is supposed to argue that passkeys are great. Yet, as I read it, I ended up with a many questions. Rather than being a good thing, this article, in my opinion, shows passkeys as a bad thing. Read it for yourself.
FYI: The Security Now podcast of May 9, 2023 raised an interesting issue. Someone who does not own a computer or smartphone and uses the Library for their Internet access, can not use passkeys.
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