Because it’s just a glorified password manager. But instead of your master password being kept securely in your head, your master password is now in the hands of Google or Apple or Microsoft.
KeePassXC just today released support for storing passkeys in your own keepass database file. And they’re not just “glorified passwords”. They’re private keys that use challenge-response authentication so they’re never actually sent over the network. Harder to compromise.
Using passkeys with some kind of personal database is ultimately an objective improvement over hodge podge username and password mechanisms, so they’re only going to continue being adopted further.
The only case they don’t really work for is when you want to log in to a computer that doesn’t have access to your passkeys.
Who the fuck is putting cryptographic keys which can dispossess them of so much money on a phone to begin with?
Let them bitch about a malicious app dev stealing it, at least they still have their thumbs.
The same sorts of people who are enthusiastically embracing Google’s “Passkey” scam.
how are passkeys a scam
Because it’s just a glorified password manager. But instead of your master password being kept securely in your head, your master password is now in the hands of Google or Apple or Microsoft.
KeePassXC just today released support for storing passkeys in your own keepass database file. And they’re not just “glorified passwords”. They’re private keys that use challenge-response authentication so they’re never actually sent over the network. Harder to compromise.
Using passkeys with some kind of personal database is ultimately an objective improvement over hodge podge username and password mechanisms, so they’re only going to continue being adopted further.
The only case they don’t really work for is when you want to log in to a computer that doesn’t have access to your passkeys.
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KeePass(XC) is open-source.
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You don’t actually use your brain lmao. How many online accounts do you have?
You are being reactionary.