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Yes, use a password manager to store your passkeys.

Passkeys are a solution looking for a problem that hasn’t been solved already, and doing it badly.

You say that and then

hoping every service they log into with “password123” has it’s own TFA. And since nearly every site uses shit TFA like a text or email message

That’s literally a problem passkeys solve and password managers don’t lol

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I make the assumption people are using the password managers like they should, which is generating unique, complex passwords, which is kinda the point. Once you hit a certain number of characters on a random password, you might as well not try. And passkeys don’t solve any sort of MFA problem, same as passwords.

And tell me something, do you realize how cunty you come off when you end a comment with “lol”?

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And passkeys don’t solve any sort of MFA problem

They do in fact solve this problem. Passkeys are something you have, and are secured by something you know, or something you are.

They also solve an age-old problem with passwords, which is that regardless of how complex your password is, it can be compromised in a breach. Because you have no say in how a company stores your password. And if that company doesn’t offer 2FA or only offers sms or email verification, then you’re even more at risk. This problem doesn’t exist with passkeys.

Edit: lol

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it can be compromised in a breach

Sure, and then that one password is compromised. Password managers make it trivial to use unique passwords for every service, so if a service is breached, you’re basically as screwed with passwords as passkeys.

The switching cost here is high, and the security benefits are marginal in practice IMO. I’m not against passkeys, but it should be something password managers handle, and I don’t have a strong preference between TOTP baked into your PW manager and passkeys.

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