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Someone1234yesterday at 6:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Right; but THAT idea is consumer hostile by design.

So your account is now tied to a physical device; great, but the device is dead, or you own a dozen devices, now what? Each vendor has their own idea about what THIS means. Heck I have a couple that allow, max, a single Passkey at a time.


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thewebguydyesterday at 6:43 PM

> Right; but THAT idea is consumer hostile by design.

No argument from me there, just stating what the design actually calls for.

It was never meant to be consumer friendly in the first place, it's an enterprise standard. It was just shoehorned onto consumers with the synced credential compromise to make it easier, instead of coming up with something better, and then just calling it a "Passkey" which now has dual meaning.

But the real solve is difficult. If a system requires a consumer user to manage, remember, or safely store something extra, it will fail.

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