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Machatoday at 5:40 PM1 replyview on HN

In practice, because site owners know users are going to mess up having their passkeys on all devices, I've not seen any insist that a passkey _must_ be used, and you can always log in with your password (or worst case, email magic links) as a fallback.

However, this negates the primary stated objective of passkeys, removing the possibility of users being phished, so I'm not sure how long that will remain the case everywhere.

I've also encountered sites that have a login with passkey prompt that then turns around and asks for TOTP 2FA or email confirmation anyway, which to me seems to negate the primary customer benefit of passkeys...


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jolmgtoday at 6:06 PM

> I've not seen any insist that a passkey _must_ be used, and you can always log in with your password (or worst case, email magic links) as a fallback.

With the exception of Github, and banks.

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