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While I agree with most he says, I really don't get why people would push for passkeys like this, it's probably the worse system in existence in terms of UX (as the more likely to get you locked-out of your account) while providing minimal security benefits (the account recovery mechanism is the weakest link in the chain, and as such it's not any better than magic links). The only ones benefiting from passkeys are Google and Apple (and app/website owners who can't avoid mismanaging user passwords, but they have little stake in this game anyway).



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