Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use passkeys. You’re telling me it’s just a thing… that lives on my phone? What if I lose my phone? What if you steal my phone?
The real solution is to only remember one or two passwords and have widespread oauth adoption. Instead of having to sign up with every possible website and app, I should only need a couple of google/Facebook/apple/steam/github/Amazon/PayPal/whatever.
But we need one that isn’t using our logins to track where/what we are doing.