Personally, I both love and hate the idea of passkeys. In terms of security, passkeys definitely have some real advantages, not to mention the convenience of never having to type a password or remember one again.
Still, they have a serious flaw: practically, you need a hardware device with you, and practically it will be a phone. I hate having to rely on having my phone handy to log into anything. What if I lose it? With a password I can log in from anywhere.
I feel like passkeys are a double-edged sword, like all of technology. On the one hand, they introduce new convenience and security, but on the other hand they make us even more tied to systems and devices. It's a lot of infrastructure that someone else has to maintain, and it's a single-point of failure in case you want to keep all your passkeys in iCloud, so you can migrate them to other iDevices.
We are crafting increasing complex systems with tighter and tighter integration into our lives and I think we need to be cautious of passkeys before accepting them so readily.
In short, there is no such thing as free convenience. There is always a cost, but we usually ignore that.
Still, they have a serious flaw: practically, you need a hardware device with you, and practically it will be a phone. I hate having to rely on having my phone handy to log into anything. What if I lose it? With a password I can log in from anywhere.
I feel like passkeys are a double-edged sword, like all of technology. On the one hand, they introduce new convenience and security, but on the other hand they make us even more tied to systems and devices. It's a lot of infrastructure that someone else has to maintain, and it's a single-point of failure in case you want to keep all your passkeys in iCloud, so you can migrate them to other iDevices.
We are crafting increasing complex systems with tighter and tighter integration into our lives and I think we need to be cautious of passkeys before accepting them so readily.
In short, there is no such thing as free convenience. There is always a cost, but we usually ignore that.