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Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won't work on another device.

Now I don't know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it's really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

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[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 60 points 9 months ago

This is starting to really get on my nerves, and I feel like discourse on the fediverse is worse; basically the attitude is that if it's not FOSS and self-hosted, it's shite. That attitude is fucking grating for the rest of us.

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

The irony is that it's an open standard. There are FOSS implementations you can self-host. Server side, client side, soft token, hard token. Everything.

https://github.com/herrjemand/awesome-webauthn

People on this thread are just really ignorant, even self-proclaimed security experts.

[-] scorpious@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

This and if any business anywhere manages to reache a significant level of success — and has the nerve to charge money for their service — it’s a sign that capitalism doesn’t work and corporations are inherently evil.

I just assume it’s an age thing.

[-] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Big tech have done this to themselves

[+] lloram239@feddit.de -8 points 9 months ago

An online authentication system is quite literally the one central thing your whole digital life depends up on. If it's broken, it can completely f'up your life and remove you from existence in the digital space. So there is extremely good reason to be skeptical when big-company tries to force you into a new thing. Especially when said big-companies have a history of f'n things up on purpose (remember G+ forcing real names on everybody and bundling previously unrelated accounts into one monolithic one?). Or take HTTPS, which was sold us with "bringing more security", when what it actually did was kill large chunks of the open and self-hosted Web.

[-] robotica@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Are you seriously arguing against HTTPS?

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