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Comment by krsw

As an IT manager weak and/or re-used passwords are an absolute scourge. Ideally every time you set a passkey you'd also add an OTP Authenticator factor as fallback. Passkeys are incredibly useful and relatively secure when pair with biometric authorization (touch/face ID). I agree with a lot of the points about consumer level use, but still think they're net positive compared with bad password (re)use. I'd advocate for email recover as a decent fallback, but there's only so much you can do when the average user won't establish a base line of security for their primary account and access point.

Security is frustrating and it's hard to get people to do the bare minimum to establish secure access to their services.

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