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Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won't work on another device.

Now I don't know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it's really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

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[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

Nope. Not going to have my entire digital everything depend on me not losing or breaking a single electronic device.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Do you not use MFA at all then?

[-] CletusVanDamme@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Authy on the phone while also using their desktop app. If you lose the phone you still have options.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Each to their own but cloud syncing and MFA are a bad mix in my eyes. It has a "who watches the watchmen" problem and it somewhat defeats the point of having a trusted factor when you have an untrusted one on "someone else's computer".

Authy have demonstrated why this is a problem (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/26/twilio-breach-authy/), plus they're closed source, so it's a big no from me.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Vaultwarden, a FOSS Bitwarden server compatible with upstream clients, is able to store TOTP, and when self hosted, you are the watchmen.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, this is fine. It's closed source, opaque cloud solutions that people should be wary of.

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