Chuckanut
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We are on the verge of starting to use Passkeys to replace Passwords.
From an article in ArsTechnica:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/rip-passwords-passkey-support-rolls-out-to-chrome-stable/#p3
From an article in ArsTechnica:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/rip-passwords-passkey-support-rolls-out-to-chrome-stable/#p3
Passkeys are here to (try to) kill the password. Following Google's beta rollout of the feature in October, passkeys are now hitting Chrome stable M108. "Passkey" is built on industry standards and backed by all the big platform vendors—Google, Apple, Microsoft—along with the FIDO Alliance. Google's latest blog says: "With the latest version of Chrome, we're enabling passkeys on Windows 11, macOS, and Android." The Google Password Manager on Android is ready to sync all your passkeys to the cloud, and if you can meet all the hardware requirements and find a supporting service, you can now sign-in to something with a passkey.
Passkeys are not phishable, and because they require your phone to be physically present (!!) some random hacker from halfway around the world can't log in to your account anyway.
I said passkeys "require a phone" but actually it's any portable device. It will most likely be a phone, but technically you can do the whole Bluetooth/QR Code connectivity dance with an iPad or Macbook, too. If you're all-in on Apple, you'll have a lot of this pain alleviated by cloud syncing, but Google doesn't have a way to seamlessly sync passkeys to every instance of Chrome, the way it does with passwords.
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