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> There’s no difference with a password, except that the sign-in process can be streamlined when everything works There is one other major difference behind th
by kd5bjo 1y ago
> There’s no difference with a password, except that the sign-in process can be streamlined when everything works
There is one other major difference behind the scenes: With passkeys, the service you’re logging into never has enough information to authenticate as you, so leaks of the server-side credential info are almost (hopefully completely) useless to an attacker.
- jbverschoor 1y agoSure, but that would mean the service is likely to be useless as well. And, you’re likely to loose access to your service. It’s like would you rather loose your pictures forever, or have them copied by someone