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dchesttoday at 3:58 AM2 repliesview on HN

Nothing in this post is specific to passkeys; it reads like advice to not encrypt data. There’s no way to prevent some users from losing their encryption key anyway. Whatever warnings you include, even when software doesn't connect to the internet and just encrypts local files, someone will write to support that they forgot their password and ask you to "reset" it.

Good advice at the end, though.


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orbital-decaytoday at 6:17 AM

There's a big difference between being kept in the dark and being informed but careless.

shepherdjerredtoday at 5:10 AM

The issue I think is that passkey managers don’t make it clear that deleting a passkey can cause permanent data loss

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