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jt2190 • today at 4:38 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Can you provide details on this attack?

Typically the user gives a website their public passkey, which does not need to be kept secret since it’s public. If the website is hacked the attackers only get information that is already public.

You seem to be talking about a scenario where a user’s private keychain on their computer is compromised and the attacker is able to access other systems from that same machine without the user’s knowledge. (Note that the keychain data is itself encrypted so can’t be used from a different computer.)