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threeseed on June 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Passkey

This is based on an open standard and is entirely optional.

So your analogy makes absolutely no sense.

willis936 on June 6, 2022 [–]

It's a metaphor.

Semantics aside, holding private keys hostage with no recourse is Orwellian. A for-profit company has no business being a centralized identity authority.

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