Ignorant question:
Are Passkeys, at some level of abstraction, permanently replacing "something you know" (password) with "something you have"?
If I am in some kind of calamity (dropped my phone, got robbed, etc), and I come to a friendly person's house, it sounds to me like I simply would not be able to login to potentially critical services, no matter how much I know, because I don't have anything (the device that passkeys are tied to / on).
Is that true?
And... am I the only person completely dreading this system?
I don't live on my one and only phone; I have two phones, 3-4 tablets, 4-5 computers I use regularly. Of various operating systems, browsers, manufacturers, etc.
I can create a password of arbitrary complexity and security and comfortably use all my devices as well as any new device that comes my way.
Passkeys sound... like a nightmare?
(they also sound AMAZING to my wife and family... woohoo no passwords, I just have to use my phone... until they INEVITABLY lose or break their phone... and then they'll come to me and I have no idea what to tell them anymore -- all your passkeys were on your device and now they're gone forever because Google & Apple decided it was better for you, and you did not follow obscure methods I frankly cannot help or explain to you to maybe possibly back them up, one day, when method exists, to some other device)
Are Passkeys, at some level of abstraction, permanently replacing "something you know" (password) with "something you have"?
If I am in some kind of calamity (dropped my phone, got robbed, etc), and I come to a friendly person's house, it sounds to me like I simply would not be able to login to potentially critical services, no matter how much I know, because I don't have anything (the device that passkeys are tied to / on).
Is that true?
And... am I the only person completely dreading this system?
I don't live on my one and only phone; I have two phones, 3-4 tablets, 4-5 computers I use regularly. Of various operating systems, browsers, manufacturers, etc.
I can create a password of arbitrary complexity and security and comfortably use all my devices as well as any new device that comes my way.
Passkeys sound... like a nightmare?
(they also sound AMAZING to my wife and family... woohoo no passwords, I just have to use my phone... until they INEVITABLY lose or break their phone... and then they'll come to me and I have no idea what to tell them anymore -- all your passkeys were on your device and now they're gone forever because Google & Apple decided it was better for you, and you did not follow obscure methods I frankly cannot help or explain to you to maybe possibly back them up, one day, when method exists, to some other device)