Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts

Tibert@jlai.lu to Technology@lemmy.world – 289 points –
Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts
arstechnica.com

Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won't work on another device.

Now I don't know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it's really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

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Passkey is an open standard. It's not Google specific.

That's good to hear. I don't know much about passkeys, and I should really spend some time learning about them. Didn't mean to fear-monger, but I guess I'm getting more cynical these days.