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Comment by coldpie

The passkey spec authors think websites should be able to ban clients which allow users to manage their own data[1,2]. It makes me really hesitant to adopt passkeys if my client could get banned because it's open source and lets me control my client how I want to. It appears to be more useful for vendor lock-in than anything else[3]. A shame, since it could've been a cool tech if they had built it to be resilient to this kind of abuse, but it's clear they think vendor lock-in is actually a core feature of the protocol.

[1] Spec author quote: "To be very honest here, you risk having KeePassXC blocked by relying parties." https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

[2] https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/01/04/passkey-marketing-...

[3] https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shatt...

parent coldpie 10 months ago

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